Example sentences of "amount [prep] [noun sg] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had done a reasonable amount of pilot work , firing for some of the older shunt link drivers and had also fired on the local ‘ pick-up ’ , but this at last was the real thing . |
| 2 | ‘ A significant amount of contract work is now developing as a result of this activity , ’ said Alex Montgomery . |
| 3 | [ Most of the recommendations were implemented : the Development Council was set up to advise on a ten-year development programme ; a large amount of building work was authorised and a special college opened in Leicester to train youth leaders , whose numbers doubled by 1966 . ] |
| 4 | In fact when LEAs increase the amount of inspection work they are required to carry out , this could well be one of the ways in which they are able to help schools move forward . |
| 5 | The acquisition of Aberdeen-based Marioff Engineering Services ( renamed Wood-Way Hydraulic Services ) provides us with significant hydraulics capability and the acquisition of 65% of Thistle Engineering , also in Aberdeen , gives us important dimensional control technology which will help to reduce the amount of welding work which is currently carried out offshore . |
| 6 | This will involve the developer in a substantial amount of design work , including both site layout and individual house designs . |
| 7 | During my undergraduate studies , I had become particularly interested in the linguistic parts of the syllabus , and I opted for what was then called ‘ Syllabus B ’ — a set of courses which contained a large amount of language work , more historical than contemporary . |
| 8 | The paper was , however , limited in scope , since it was felt that there were major changes in higher education ahead — the James Committee on Teacher Education was sitting , for example — and the items most prominent in the document were a proposal to reduce the amount of paper work for renewals of course approval , and the possibility of delegating authority for the registration of MPhil students . |
| 9 | Now we will pay all those commissions on the basis of you achieving er first of all the sale but also a minimum amount of paper work . |
| 10 | We have just noted that new technology has a major impact at work in accelerating the shift from manufacturing into services , in reducing the amount of routine work , and in job displacement . |
| 11 | Cost considerations also controlled the amount of restoration work which was undertaken . |
| 12 | Reading scores are low , maths scores are low and the amount of repair work needed when kids get to college , if they do , is phenomenal . |
| 13 | A total of 34 farms had no assistance from wives whilst on two farms there was a daughter working on the farm in addition to the wife , though the latter now did only a limited amount of farm work . |
| 14 | But for a schoolboy , you will appreciate this was not easy , and became more and more difficult as the amount of lecture work and breeding costs increased . |