Example sentences of "the [det] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian influence on British cooking has resulted in a shift away from traditional classical sauces and stocks towards an emphasis on ‘ something exquisitely fresh , with the least amount of modification in the process of preparation ’ , to quote from an old Tuscan cookery book . |
| 2 | The main problem of the present-day settlor is so to draft the limitations of the settlement as to attract the least amount of income tax and inheritance tax . |
| 3 | Only he truly knows whether they were cheap pictures produced with one aim , to make as much money as possible from the least amount of effort , or whether he had other more high-flown artistic notions in mind . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This channel is indeed Fender-like in character : I found everything from vintage Bassman to modern Twin with the least amount of fiddling about . |
| 6 | If your chosen pattern for the main fabric uses an unusual needle setting , perhaps with a different setting on each bed , then study the pattern before you begin and choose a welt which will give you the least amount of transferring for the final setting . |
| 7 | The least amount of change was thought to have occurred in relationships with patients : just one doctor thought that this had changed ‘ quite a lot . ’ |
| 8 | The jaws are independent so the ring has to be centred carefully to permit turning with the removal of the least amount of material . |
| 9 | Efficiency could be measured in terms of speed of performance , the least amount of storage required or the least number of program lines . |
| 10 | Do n't let it come across like that , the temptation is to think that you 've got to have all this bit up here , now you do n't want this up here because it 's very difficult to cope with once you 've tied it round to get it round the elbow , you want the least amount that you can get , just cover the arm and then it makes it much easier to deal with at the end . |
| 11 | Which pair of measurements for ( a ) will allow him to use the least amount of steel edging ? |
| 12 | In this context it was interesting to observe that the school which imposed a more summative , norm-referenced , approach to assessment on its staff , was also the one in which the least amount of innovation appeared to be taking place in this area , whereas the school with the most formative approach to assessment and reporting appeared to be more open to new ideas and methods . |
| 13 | Robyn entered the tiny shop and bought at random , grabbing anything that was familiar — an odd assortment of things that would sustain her with the least amount of effort , paying her money to the assistant vaguely , absent-mindedly . |
| 14 | Just a means to get what I want with the least amount of trouble . ’ |
| 15 | I mean they 've got the least amount of people that are there are so we 'll either that or the end of the day see if it does n't get banned , right ? |
| 16 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 17 | To prevent a heavy landing as the airbrakes are opened , a backward movement is needed on the stick to increase the wing 's angle of attack to maintain the same amount of lift as before . |
| 18 | This scheme means that instead of paying quarterly bills you pay the same amount into your electricity or gas account each month . |
| 19 | In most cases the ‘ rates ’ used in the calculation will be the same amount as the actual bill you received in 1989–90 . |
| 20 | Impressed by their studiousness , we carefully counted out some coins , making sure each boy got the same amount . |
| 21 | The Bank of France pushed up its intervention rate by 0.75 per cent to 9.5 per cent and its five-to 10-day repurchase rate rose by the same amount to 10.25 per cent . |
| 22 | In the first fortnight of the campaign readers of highbrow and lowbrow papers detected the same amount of bias in coverage of the Conservatives and the Alliance , though highbrow readers found less bias in coverage of Labour . |
| 23 | Due to wartime conditions the peasantry got the same amount of agricultural machinery over the years 1915–21 that they had been able to buy in a single year prior to the World War . |
| 24 | • Advance your meal times by the same amount as you change your times of getting up and going to bed . |
| 25 | The workers have been on duty for the same amount of time whenever measurements are made . |
| 26 | The only conditions the Taxman lays down is that you give the same amount regularly for at least four years and that you are a UK taxpayer . |
| 27 | ‘ The patient received the same amount of air as he was given the previous week . |
| 28 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 29 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 30 | However , estimates of the space needed for a battery of windmills capable of producing the same amount of electricity as a normal power station , fossil fuel or nuclear , range from 100 to 200 square miles . |