Example sentences of "amount of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ca n't bother her Bev because the amount of noise that we get through the walls is so bad and she 's in it , she 's actually there with the animals barking , so she takes no notice whatsoever of them |
| 2 | It 's not the amount of faith that we can muster . |
| 3 | When you start to put your army together you 'll be confronted with a bewildering amount of choice because there are so many kinds of troops . |
| 4 | Training 's the first thing that goes , in a recession , that 's the first thing that people cut , and not only , well we are achieving the fixed amount of income that we 're obliged to in order to make previous reductions , but we 're certainly not covering costs . |
| 5 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 6 | To attempt to review all the molecular theories of the mechanical properties would require a very considerable amount of space and it is not the purpose of this book to do this . |
| 7 | You 're really getting through a terrific amount of stuff and you keep asking for more it 's great . |
| 8 | ‘ One has gained a certain amount of experience that one did n't have before and I think we will have come out of it stronger . |
| 9 | ‘ The patient received the same amount of air as he was given the previous week . |
| 10 | Whether or not a family moved depended in large measure on the amount of land that they held and on the number of landholding branches . |
| 11 | That 's why I feel a certain amount of responsibility when I 'm writing . |
| 12 | Excellent gains can be made with the minimum amount of equipment if you are determined . |
| 13 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 14 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 15 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 16 | I am ambitious , but you can be ambitious in the same garden because of the amount of work that you can see five or ten years in front of you . |
| 17 | I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid |
| 18 | There 's the same amount of work and you have more interest for your time off . ’ |
| 19 | Now would seem to be a good time to buy PCs , but there could well be a certain amount of hassle before your new wonder computer is up and running properly . |
| 20 | There will be no limit on meeting the cost of medicines or the amount of medicines that your doctor can prescribe . |
| 21 | Well I personally think with an appeal fund like that , I mean the amount of money that 's gone into it is ridiculous considering the amount of compensation that everybody 's going to get or hopes to get after it . |
| 22 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 23 | They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front . |
| 24 | I think in the end , yes , the money was with England erm and in the end , the amount of possession that they actually had , that erm it sort of told the day in the end . |
| 25 | I used to miss my mother and father dreadfully when I was younger , and now I feel a certain amount of guilt that I need them so little , think of them so seldom . |
| 26 | It 's like when we were in Cyprus , the amount of things that you can actually barter for . |
| 27 | ‘ It is clear we need to sell and bring in a fair amount of money before we can think of buying again . |
| 28 | ‘ It is clear that we need to sell and bring in a fair amount of money before we can think about buying again . ’ |
| 29 | And it 's self employment so the couriers that we er supplied with the parcels with are the p- umm er , they 're liable for tax and insurance if any is due , I mean earn a certain amount of money before you start |
| 30 | I accept that the Government have the right to determine the amount of money that they are prepared to give to local government . |