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The phrase "about the width of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a measurement or comparison in a general sense, often when the exact width is not specified.
Example: "The table is about the width of a standard door."
Alternatives: "approximately the width of" or "roughly the width of".
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Each groove will be about 50 microns wide, about the width of a human hair.
The racing kayaks are long, sleek and about the width of your hips.
It was only about the width of a pencil eraser, but even that was too big.
He held out his hands in a shape about the width of a small watermelon.
The distance between each home is about the width of a grand piano.
It even has its own road, about the width of an eight-lane highway.
It's just about the width of a New Yorker column of type.
A more Conservative Elizabethan sleeve is about the width of a normal coat sleeve.
Much of one half was sliced into sheets about the width of sandwich bread.
"It was about the right shade of blue, about the cut, about the width of a lapel".
Wash, trim and halve the fennel bulb then cut it into thin slices about the width of matchsticks.
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