Example sentences of "the amount of [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You now know how to measure the amount of surface on the six faces of a cuboid . |
| 2 | The amount of English on the radio was reduced , and government documents , which had previously been printed almost entirely in English , began to appear in Swahili during the mid-1960s . |
| 3 | Once again the amount of black on the anal fin can help — more in males than in females . |
| 4 | For IDE drives , a cacheing controller can increase throughput by up to 50% , the average figure being around 30% , but efficiency is largely governed by the amount of RAM on the controller card , and its speed . |
| 5 | The result is a tendency to increase the amount of erosion on the coast . |
| 6 | It was not only waders that made use of the sand : green-backed herons , cattle egrets and a solitary grey heron were also busily feeding , and a distant party of little terns on a sand spit were probably the race called Saunders 's tern , judging by the amount of dark on the wing-tips when they flew off . |
| 7 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |
| 8 | The amount of traffic on the route ( see appendix D ) never increased following the improvements at Foxton , so that in an economic sense the lift from the start was required to perform in a situation where it was not needed . |
| 9 | The County Council has always said that the western relief road would produce a reduction of thirty one percent in the amount of traffic on the A sixty one immediately north and south of the town centre . |
| 10 | Whatever decision the government takes on the East-west route , the amount of traffic on the roads will continue to grow — and despite the problems of freight , the vast majority of vehicles on the roads — over 80% — are private cars . |