Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mass of several moles of a substance can be calculated using the following relationship : where m denotes the mass of the substance in units of grams , fl denotes the amount of substance in units of moles and M denotes the molar mass of the substance in units of grams per mole . |
| 2 | Central Electricity Generating Board throw a certain amount of doubt on aspects of this definition . |
| 3 | There was , moreover , a considerable amount of discretion in terms of what might count as ‘ violence ’ in a street robbery , and it seems likely that street robbers were more commonly charged with ‘ bag-snatching ’ which was regarded as a less serious offence than ‘ robbery with violence ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | During the 1960s , under the leadership of Terence O'Neill , the Unionist Parliamentary Party found itself devoting an increasing amount of time to questions of economic and social reform . |
| 6 | In recent years sociolinguists have shown a fair amount of interest in models of variation and change which are based on the notion of lexical diffusion ( Chen 1976 ; Wang 1969 ; Labov 1981 ; J. Milroy 1981b ; Trudgill 1986a : 58 ) . |
| 7 | … consumes vast amounts of paper in terms of assessing and marking . |