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The phrase "about the height of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when providing an approximate measurement or comparison regarding height.
Example: "The fence is about the height of a standard door."
Alternatives: "approximately the height of" or "roughly the height of".
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That was about the height of excitement.
team about the height of the security fence.
It is about the height of a man.
What do you notice when you're about the height of a dog?
"We care desperately in Queens about the height of buildings," she said.
At 162m, the pole will be about the height of a 54-storey building.
"People were jumping out of the balloon from about the height of a seven-storey building".
A too-thin (in Fiona's eyes) mattress is about the height of … a Weetabix.
The plane is about the height of the yellow tip of the Parachute Jump.
It was about the height of a ten-story building when the writer was there.
Her face is not round, but sort of egg-shaped, and she is about the height of this table.
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