Example sentences of "[art] amount of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Limits might be set for the amount of animal manure put on the land , and for inorganic fertiliser application , based on crop and soil types .
2 I do n't look at this end of the market very often , so it is a bit of an eye-opener for me regarding the amount of controls there are for changing the sound .
3 The amount of riboflavin in two square centimetres of banana skin .
4 It seems the price of echoes varied , reasonably enough , with the amount of gunpowder consumed .
5 Neither the buildings of Parliament nor the members were in serious danger from the amount of gunpowder to be used .
6 That 's all the amount of nuisance you have to be to drive a man into the arms of his parish . ’
7 I was very disillusioned when I started doing physics by the amount of maths in the course .
8 Turning to movements within the income distribution , mean-variance analysis has been used to illustrate that progressive income taxation will tend to lower the amount of risk-taking it is optimal for a utility-maximizing individual to undertake .
9 Secondly , there have been major changes in the amount of rape reported in the press .
10 In general we can write where n is the amount of substance in moles ( or more simply the number of moles ) , m is the mass of the substance in grams and M is the molar mass .
11 The amount of substance is a physical quantity .
12 The mole is the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are carbon atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon-12 .
13 The amount of substance is proportional to the number of specified elementary entities of that substance .
14 Notice that in each of these examples we are careful to specify exactly the entities or particles to which the amount of substance refers .
15 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 .
16 Similarly , the mass of a substance can be converted to the amount of substance using the following relationship : Example Calculate the amount of methane molecules , CH4 , in 8.0 grams of methane , CH4 .
17 This is because the word molar means " divided by the amount of substance " or " per unit amount of substance " .
18 Concentration is the amount of substance per unit volume of solution .
19 Experimental evidence has been published suggesting that the amount of histone H1 is decreased in transcriptionally active chromatin and that the binding properties of H1 to the core nucleosomes are different in active and inactive chromatin fractions ( 6,7 ) .
20 The latter offer yet another way of affecting the output power of the S120 ; the amount of variation available means that the amp is capable of offering anything from a humble 8 watts per channel to a fairly mighty 60 watts per side .
21 To interpret exceptions to the general rule that sexual dimorphism increases with the degree of polygyny , we need to remember that it is the comparative effects of phenotypic traits on reproductive success in males and females that will determine the degree of dimorphism and not the amount of variation in reproductive success per se ( see Price , 1970 ; Lande , 1980 ) .
22 They are well aware of the amount of variation possible in ‘ scientifically produced ’ data and look with a certain scepticism upon laboratory results , especially when they diverge markedly from their own intuition or their expectations based on past knowledge .
23 The gas-generating potential decreases as the maturity increases and thus this decrease is a measure of the amount of gas generated and expelled from the coal during its thermal history .
24 Much of the new demand will come from a doubling in the amount of gas consumed by electricity generators .
25 Can the Minister provide similar figures for the amount of gas discovered in the North sea and an estimate of the life of our gas supplies ?
26 The exact value of the constant depends on the amount of gas .
27 The amount of gas therefore decreases during the reaction .
28 The Grid control Centre forecasts the amount of gas required and then notifies the National Control Centre who can then nominate the volume of gas to be fed into the system at the coastal terminals .
29 For daily operation and domestic use , of course , the Electricity and Gas Authorities , they have to predict the amount of gas or electricity required , and the first thing they have to think about is what is the weather expected ?
30 ‘ Their lifting at the line-out is out of the ark and the English players who have met them so far are frustrated about the amount of ball they are allowed to win on the floor . ’
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