Example sentences of "a [adj] amount of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ There has been a terrific amount of publicity about his sister . |
| 2 | There is a terrific amount of power in the Duncan Distortion and here it is being put to the best possible use . |
| 3 | Within our group of 19 authorities who spent over £5,000 , only one did not formally allocate a specific amount of money for training , and that one authority was still able to be very specific about the amount estimated for 1984/5 ( £6,000 ) , though not formally budgeted . |
| 4 | These will vary from Compact to Compact but you will be expected to show : a ) that your attendance and punctuality have been consistently good , b ) that you can work reliably at school , c ) that you have spent a specific amount of time on Work Experience , d ) that you have a positive sense of responsibility to your school and the wider community . |
| 5 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 6 | The resulting plants are likely to be better because there is minimal root disturbance , and each seedling has a generous amount of compost without competition — but the number of seedlings you can raise at once will be very limited , so use this method for plants like tomatoes , where you do n't need many , or those worth special treatment , such as bedding geraniums . |
| 7 | The Government needs not only to help with after-school childcare but to put a proper amount of money into that service . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Denton and Reddish ( Mr. Bennett ) suggested that we need to ensure a proper amount of time for outside organisations to lobby the House . |
| 9 | There 's no point in us spending a horrendous amount of money on the site if we 've no control over it . ’ |
| 10 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 11 | I do indeed pay tribute to over one thousand two hundred top business and community leaders who serve on our eighty two training and enterprise councils and who indeed is quite right in er earmarking , do a tremendous amount of work on equal opportunities . |
| 12 | Ah , L L Leslie , yes , he he he did a tremendous amount of work for the er er for the L Labour party . |
| 13 | ‘ Obviously , I have a tremendous amount of memories from here and I had a tremendous amount of success here , too . |
| 14 | At least so far as chess is concerned , working on the level of ideas , instead of specific calculations , seems to let a tremendous amount of imprecision into one 's thinking . |
| 15 | He echoes Wattam 's concerns : ‘ There 's a tremendous amount of anxiety about how effective this is going to be and how such an important change can be introduced without monitoring . |
| 16 | ‘ What Chipie offers is a tremendous amount of options for men , women and children , from jeans and sweatshirts to accessories . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans . |
| 18 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 19 | With Lucinda Green 's enthusiasm , the 12 of us involved raised £80,000 this year , and ended up taking over 40 tonnes of supplies , with a tremendous amount of support from the ‘ horsy fraternity ’ . |
| 20 | I welcome that assurance , but does my hon. Friend accept that there is already a tremendous amount of evidence about some of the things that are clearly wrong with maritime safety ? |
| 21 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 22 | The exercise involved a tremendous amount of effort by the Secretariat and the Pupillage Working Party . |
| 23 | But that sensitivity in my book is what is going to give you a tremendous amount of pleasure in your retirement . |
| 24 | THERE is a tremendous amount of movement in your chart for much of December which may indicate situations that once appeared irredeemably stuck now do a 180-degree shift . |
| 25 | Well I think what you 've got to be careful of and it 's always a difficulty when you 're looking at er benefits and dis-benefits of major road schemes , you 'll see that we go into a tremendous amount of or collect a tremendous amount of information about the different impacts . |
| 26 | ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The Longfin Anthias , Pseudanthias ventralis , is only about 7cm long at maturity , but packs a tremendous amount of beauty into its tiny form . |
| 28 | The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen . |
| 29 | Winter discovered that he could apply a limited amount of control by squeezing Mandarin with his knees , by swinging his body to one side or the other , and by applying such pressure as he could with the reins on the horse 's neck . |
| 30 | The factory manufactured traditional Persian style Axminster rugs and a limited amount of broadloom on approximately twelve jacquard gripper looms using designs supplied from the state studio in Moscow . |