Sentence examples for affairs about from inspiring English sources

The phrase "affairs about" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts discussing matters or issues related to a specific topic, but it is better to use more standard expressions.
Example: "The committee will discuss the affairs about the upcoming event during the meeting."
Alternatives: "matters concerning" or "issues regarding".

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And he had a slew of affairs, about which he came clean only after she discovered inexplicable charges on a credit card bill.

The motorcycle increased his status, gave him weight, so that people began calling him Uncle and asking his opinion on world affairs, about which he knew absolutely nothing.

They liked to hold forth on world affairs, about which, leaving the details to their deputies, they took the grand view.

According to the Manhattan prosecutors, Diallo lied with abandon — about facts of the Strauss-Kahn case, about her background, about her financial affairs, about pretty much everything.

But at the time, I grossly overestimated her capacity to answer questions about world affairs, about how her personal points of view were shaped".

The Syrian government turned down a request to interview Najah al-Attar, the vice president for cultural affairs, about the artistic outpouring.

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In the early 1860s Swinburne apparently suffered from an unhappy love affair about which little is known.

"At the time of the Festina affair, about 80% of the riders were using drugs either regularly or occasionally.

"The Emperor Jones," Limón's 1956 dance version of Eugene O'Neill's play, revived in a new production, is a plodding affair about tyranny, usurpation, paranoia and ignominy.

"This is an affair about caricatures that incite racism," the head of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, told a press conference last week.

The trading room itself is a low-ceilinged affair about the size of an average living room, with 13 computers lined up along three walls.

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