The phrase "about how tall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when inquiring about the height of a person, object, or structure, often in a casual or conversational context.
Example: "Can you tell me about how tall the building is?"
Alternatives: "approximately how tall" or "roughly how tall".
It's not about how tall the building is, but about how tall it makes us feel.
"It's not about how tall you are," she said.
Assemblyman Herb J. Wesson, Jr., who recently stepped down as Speaker, received a needlepoint pillow, stitched with the words "Need a lift?" (Wesson is short, and he has had a running joke with Schwarzenegger about how tall the Governor, who claims to be six feet two, really is).
Now, think specifically about how tall (or short) they all are.
For example, if the user queries Google about "How tall is Claudia Schiffer", the correct answer is displayed above the returned links.
"There's a whole website called CelebHeights.com, and there's people who argue about how tall celebrities are, celebrities they've never met," said Kine. "And this one, there were like pages and pages of people debating how tall Jake Gyllenhaal was". .
And people ask more questions about trivia — "How tall is the Statue of Liberty" (answer: 305 feet) and "How old is the earth" (4.54 billion years) — on mobile devices than on computers.
One of the most comprehensive data sets available about Americans — how tall they are, when they last visited a dentist, what sort of cereal they eat for breakfast, whether they have to pee during the night, and, if so, how often — comes from a series of studies conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It will include a £3bn skyscraper that will be more than 600m high (roughly double the height of London's Shard) and either the second or third tallest in the world (I met executives of the state owned developers, Greenland, who were coy about precisely how tall it would finally be).
"One surprising thing about Donald Trump is how tall he is.
10 22 — Zuck goes on about exponential growth, "How tall is a piece of paper folded 50 times?
