Example sentences of "amount [prep] [noun sg] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of carbohydrate malabsorbed was estimated by comparing the area under the breath hydrogen curve ( BH 2 AUC ) after the rice flour meal with that after lactulose . |
| 2 | Despite this it was found that in all three areas of Wales the amount of land owned was almost the same . |
| 3 | Once again an immense amount of credit had been earned by Alec Stewart . |
| 4 | The problem appeared particularly acute in those wells which had taken losses during the workovers — those where a large amount of water had been pumped into the well bore and the productive reservoir to keep the wellbore stable . |
| 5 | The considerable amount of water saved was now , in effect , available southward for the Braunston stretch ( itself a summit ) , where there was a perennial water shortage , for this canal continued to carry a large through traffic from the Birmingham area . |
| 6 | His habitual amount of sleep had been five to seven hours a night , with a half-hour siesta in the afternoon . |
| 7 | Because they developed a system of mining , whereby once once it was the the the task had begun to clear the coal face of a certain er a certain area of coal , it did n't matter what what happened during that particular period of time , whether all the machinery broke down , etcetera , etcetera , you had to stop u until that amount of coal had been cleared off , you see . |
| 8 | PC Dave Fishwick , of Darlington police , said a substantial amount of property had been recovered . |
| 9 | In many cases the amount of section measured was considerably less than 500 ft ( 150 m ) with the average being 216 ft ( 63 m ) ; numbers of mean values used varied from two to six and in 27 cases only one value could be utilised . |
| 10 | The amount of oil spilt was twice as much as the Exxon Valdez which ran aground off Alaska in 1989 , and slightly more than Aegean Sea which ran aground off the Spanish coast in December [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 11 | His confidence in his ability was borne out in practice and by 1857 the amount of adulteration had been considerably reduced . |
| 12 | However , in extracts from RJ2.2.5 , and other MHC class II negative cell lines , such as HeLa , the amount of complex observed was significantly higher than in wild-type Raji cells . |
| 13 | The amount of RNA synthesized was unrelated to motor activity or any measure of stress that we could identify ( for instance how much the birds peeped or twittered ) , but it was strongly correlated with their preference score ; that is , the more the chicks had learned about the flashing light and preferred it to any alternative , the more RNA was synthesized in their forebrain roof . |
| 14 | At one site , the amount of coral had been halved in just three years . |
| 15 | After she left old woman discovered a substantial amount of cash had been stolen . |
| 16 | By the end of 1992 , the amount of waste produced was 30 per cent down on 1990 . |