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

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1 Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there .
2 and it was exact amount of coins I had in my pocket !
3 Mum begins to notice my attachment to John , the amount of hours I am spending away from home , the fact that I am growing up and away from her , and also how much I 'm eating .
4 More realistic pay , dependent on my level of expertise and the amount of responsibility I hold
5 Right , I just thought the Chair would like to thank Councillor for the immense amount of work I know that he 's been putting in over certain things that have been going on lately and I now take councillors ' questions if any of you got any for me .
6 I think of the vast amount of work I 've got planned for six weeks , makes me wish it was about ten .
7 I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that
8 The figure I gave you about the amount of money I 've spent gives you a notion about the size of the advance , which was very generous from both Gollancz and the Americans [ Putnam ] .
9 the amount of money I 'm getting is inadequate , I 'm not getting it made up in Income Support , please help .
10 ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won .
11 and they 've stopped this on you and they expect you to pay all this amount of money I do n't know
12 Now when you do this sort of assessment do you take into consideration the amount of money I have to pay to go and stay a night at a place like this ?
13 I was even , you know , obviously you can worry about sending the stuff , this canvass three out purely because the the amount of instructions I had to do last week .
14 It really looks something , and judging from the amount of saliva I have to keep wiping off the top , everyone else thinks so too .
15 There is a limit to the amount of help I am prepared to give . ’
16 The voucher scheme also gets rid of the embarrassment of paying someone , and through Joan I 've got a bit of flexibility about the amount of help I get . ’
17 I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations .
18 But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ?
19 I wo n't the amount of times I 've I 've been in a car or something , where fucking jump on the brakes !
20 There is a physical limit on the amount of goods I can carry to Q.T. Days and other events .
21 Although I know that the amount of exercise I do will keep me fit , these days I feel guilty about doing ‘ so little ’ exercise .
22 I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do .
23 An easy and quick process even with the large amount of data I already had stored .
24 For this reason , I limit the amount of aerobics I do so that they are within the capability of most people .
25 I just want to go with the least amount of gear I can get away with , be able to troubleshoot it myself and keep it simple .
26 Yeah the amount of crap I get through the place you would n't believe it .
27 Despite the amount of time I spent worrying about them , the questions themselves were usually the same : what happened to John ?
28 The amount of time I have been able to spend detecting has been hampered , unfortunately , by several setbacks .
29 ‘ It was n't that , it was the amount of time I have to spend at home … helping with Jennifer , ’ she added .
30 The amount of time I 've
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