Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shot sizes are variable according to casting distances and amount of pull on the water . |
| 2 | Once again the amount of black on the anal fin can help — more in males than in females . |
| 3 | Each character in a font takes a precise amount of space on the page when it is printed . |
| 4 | You now know how to measure the amount of surface on the six faces of a cuboid . |
| 5 | However , by 1892 the immense amount of work on the structure and synthesis of organic compounds over the previous 25–30 years made a more systematic approach to naming these compounds necessary . |
| 6 | There 's no point in us spending a horrendous amount of money on the site if we 've no control over it . ’ |
| 7 | An inset was at one time created for Skelton , and it resulted in a considerable amount of building on the south side . |
| 8 | The methods described and examples outlined above demand a certain amount of expertise on the part of the collaborator . |
| 9 | The amount of English on the radio was reduced , and government documents , which had previously been printed almost entirely in English , began to appear in Swahili during the mid-1960s . |
| 10 | From the time of James Callaghan 's famous Ruskin speech in 1976 , an enormous amount of documentation on the curriculum has issued from the DES and HMI ( Chapter 1.1 offers a brief overview of some of the key events and documents ) . |
| 11 | Nanbu gained a certain amount of success on the Japanese karate tournament scene , winning the All-Japan Students Championships three times . |
| 12 | I was comfortably warm using the main bag and bivvy bag for an outdoor bivvy ( lowest temperature +5°C ) and only found a small amount of condensation on the inside when I woke up . |
| 13 | Hank drifted silently in through the back door and deposited a pile of school books on the kitchen table and a fair amount of snow on the kitchen floor from his moccasins . |
| 14 | The match will provide Ipswich with a chance to give some of the players who have spent a considerable amount of time on the bench with some badly needed match practice . |
| 15 | If you do not like the idea of an infinite number you must still recognize that there must be some number of moments of slug pleasure which would outweigh any finite amount of joy on the earth . |
| 16 | It was not only waders that made use of the sand : green-backed herons , cattle egrets and a solitary grey heron were also busily feeding , and a distant party of little terns on a sand spit were probably the race called Saunders 's tern , judging by the amount of dark on the wing-tips when they flew off . |
| 17 | There is Robert Skidelsky 's history of the second Labour government and Stuart Ball 's excellent account of the Conservative party in opposition , a book which casts an enormous amount of light on the inner life of the party . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that there is available to humankind meanings to the words ‘ god ’ and ‘ religion ’ which are based on reason and the intelligent interpretation of the limitless amount of information on the course of evolution and civilisation which can be gathered through the study of history and prehistory . |
| 19 | Paul keeps up a hectic programme of lectures on the species , and has amassed a considerable amount of information on the pros and cons of reintroduction . |
| 20 | Identifying the specific weaving group is , of course , far more difficult , and you would have to gather a considerable amount of information on the individual variations in weave , colour and composition before hazarding a guess . |
| 21 | d ) They provide an immense amount of information on the culture . |
| 22 | The letter continued : ’ The answers to your specific questions to the Minister , are , therefore , that we have seen a certain amount of information on the cost of the King 's Cross project ’ — we should like to know what that certain amount of information is — ’ and the projected revenues before giving consent to the deposit of the Bill . ’ |
| 23 | a good amount of information on the products shown should be available beforehand ( emphasising the importance of pre-exhibition mailing ) ; |
| 24 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |
| 25 | Or if you 're forty percent you would have actually paid a thousand and sixty seven , but because you did n't pay that because it 's tax exempt you actually gained that amount of interest on the tax that stayed in with your account . |
| 26 | The amount of traffic on the route ( see appendix D ) never increased following the improvements at Foxton , so that in an economic sense the lift from the start was required to perform in a situation where it was not needed . |
| 27 | Apparently at this particular time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road in question and traffic from one direction had halted in order to allow that the young girl and her friend to cross the road they began to cross on the zebra crossing but , as she reached the centre of the road Mrs was driving her vehicle in the opposite direction and she failed to stop the young girl , in her teens , was unable to take , avoiding acci action and she was knocked down as she crossed the road . |
| 28 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 29 | The County Council has always said that the western relief road would produce a reduction of thirty one percent in the amount of traffic on the A sixty one immediately north and south of the town centre . |
| 30 | Whatever decision the government takes on the East-west route , the amount of traffic on the roads will continue to grow — and despite the problems of freight , the vast majority of vehicles on the roads — over 80% — are private cars . |