Example sentences of "[adj] amount [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is assumed that on completion of a form some amount of discussion between the lexicographers and the New OED Computer Group will be required to enable the request to be actioned . |
| 2 | Owing to symmetry considerations ( there is the same infinite amount of charge in the region unc as in the corresponding region |
| 3 | Not only wrote it , but published it and made what seemed to a poorly-paid lecturer to be a very acceptable amount of money with it . |
| 4 | The presence of this amount of water in the polymer also affects its mechanical properties . |
| 5 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
| 6 | It is a source of much satisfaction to us that this amount of interest in the exhibition is being taken by all classes . |
| 7 | If one of your friends lost this amount of weight from one Christmas to the next , changed from a fat person into a slim and healthy person , you would certainly notice ! |
| 8 | There 's no point in us spending a horrendous amount of money on the site if we 've no control over it . ’ |
| 9 | A glass of wine — red or white — contains about 15% of the recommended daily amount of iron for a man ; 10% for a woman . |
| 10 | And the recommended daily amount of iron in it . |
| 11 | It 's got recommend , it 's got the recommended daily amount of vitamins in it . |
| 12 | She still lived at home , handing the meagre amount of money on which she was supposed to have managed to her mother . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was on 1,000 grams of that a day , now I 'm on 187 , so although I 'm still on medication it 's a very minute amount of medication to what I was on before , and I 'm existing on that , so for me it 's worked . |
| 16 | Two aspects need consideration : the tendency of workers to lessen their weekly amount of work at times when higher money wages or lower food prices allowed them to meet their customary expectation of comfort from fewer hours of labour , and secondly , the ability of home-based out-workers to control their own pace of work , compensating , if they so chose , for a slack early week with a bout of late-week intensity . |
| 17 | The Government needs not only to help with after-school childcare but to put a proper amount of money into that service . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | My profession was so time-consuming it was hard to spend the proper amount of time with them . |
| 20 | Formal speeches were made by practically every one present , and after each speech one had to have a toast and down the requisite amount of liquour after clinking glasses and saying ‘ gambei ’ ( ‘ empty your glass ’ ) . |
| 21 | In his gigantic sum over histories there is a vast amount of interference between the contributions of neighbouring paths which have a tendency to cancel each other out . |
| 22 | Not only was it a vast amount of money for the fledgling state to raise , by many Israeli officials felt passionately that Israel should not begin its life be seeking to extend its reach ad influence through such obvious corruption . |
| 23 | Says Bartle : ‘ We demonstrated that you do n't need to spend a vast amount of money for advertising to work and be successful . |
| 24 | TIM BURTON , currently Hollywood 's golden boy with Batman Returns , is not just sticking to the obvious — even if there 's a vast amount of money in it . |
| 25 | Both Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth accept that Mr. Wickham would only have agreed to marry for £10,000 which was seen as a vast amount of money in those days . |
| 26 | One of the earliest defectors to the West was the Russian Igor Gouzenko who with considerable difficulty sought asylum with the Canadian authorities in September 1945 , bringing with him a vast amount of information about Russian espionage activities in North America . |
| 27 | This has given me a vast amount of information about their needs and desires . |
| 28 | They acquire a vast amount of information about their world without direct intervention from their parents or their teachers . |
| 29 | Fragmentary and damaged though they are , the Knossos frescoes have yielded a vast amount of information about the world of the Minoans . |
| 30 | Thus Davis very quickly gained a vast amount of information about the many chemical operations of his day . |