Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet climbers appear willing to put an inordinate amount of faith in a long line of brass nuts and then show surprise when they pull like a hot knife through butter . |
| 2 | It is clear that a main attraction of the project for its participants was the opportunity offered to obtain a large amount of space in a Central London location for a modest outlay . |
| 3 | NCp7 or NCp7 mutants were incubated with the indicated amount of DNA in a final volume of 10 µl in the buffer described above for 5 min at 37°C . |
| 4 | The amount of work in a programme is shared out amongst the different processors of the computer . |
| 5 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 6 | For the purpose of such measurements a layer of distinctive sand is put down on the marsh and the amount of accretion after a period of years measured by cutting down to the patch of sand with a tool sharp enough not to disturb the section . |
| 7 | The latter risk of inadequate demand for the final output can be partially solved for a bank by ‘ off-take ’ agreements whereby the project developer and other parties enter an agreement to supply and accept an agreed amount of output at a specific price . |
| 8 | Normally you will want to use full side-slip for a few seconds rather than a small amount of slip for a much longer time . |
| 9 | There 's some very elaborate schemes proposed for reducing the amount of wiring in a car . |
| 10 | What we 've done tonight , is spread that amount of money over a tremendous number of people tonight |
| 11 | I have seen clauses in record contracts which are absolutely meaningless and which I would happily have traded for a defined amount of money for a tour support , video , or promotional commitment . |
| 12 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 13 | ‘ Many people would be better off spending a smaller amount of money on a new hairdo or a relaxing holiday . |
| 14 | If you can not do this , you could put aside a certain amount of money as a reward for each time the scales register a drop in weight . |
| 15 | We can usefully compare figures of output for individual issues , calculated as described above , with records ( where they exist ) of the amount of money in a state 's economy . |
| 16 | The man then took an undisclosed amount of money from a metal box and escaped |
| 17 | Wherever possible the Institute attempts to keep the amount of correspondence to a minimum . |
| 18 | It is a matter of providing for the right amount of development in a balanced way . |
| 19 | Simple sieving , on its own , is obviously nowhere near capable of generating the amount of order in a living thing . |
| 20 | There are areas , such as the New Forest , Dartmoor and Exmoor , where ponies and sheep , and to a lesser extent cattle , are allowed to roam over a considerable amount of acreage in a relatively unrestricted way . |
| 21 | Next , watching the rudder pedals , increase the amount of rudder by a movement of about one inch forward on the rudder pedal and try again to reduce the speed . |
| 22 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 23 | The mole is the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are carbon atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon-12 . |
| 24 | ‘ But I do n't eat anywhere near that amount of fat in a day , ’ I hear you say , and of course in the form of butter or pure fat , no doubt you do n't . |
| 25 | No amount of ingenuity with a bottle of Timotei is going to disguise the fact that , once out of the car , your average speedster looks as if he has reversed through a hedge . |
| 26 | First , as you discovered in exercise 10.1 , while the wealthier members of any society claim to be more happy than poorer members of that society , the cross-cultural association between the average amount of wealth in a country and the proportion who claim to be happy is extremely weak . |
| 27 | If in doubt , it might be as well to look at a pattern for fabric or to measure the amount of depth on a hemline that is already a favourite . |
| 28 | Yet if we assume , as we are perfectly entitled to do for the sake of argument , that life has originated only once in the universe , it follows that we are allowed to postulate a very large amount of luck in a theory , because there are so many planets in the universe where life could have originated . |
| 29 | The official railway ‘ watchdog authority ’ , the Central Transport Consultative Committee , claimed to have amassed ‘ a considerable amount of evidence of a direct link between a decline in some aspects of quality of service provided for passengers , and major reductions in government subsidy ’ ( Financial Times ( FT ) 4 August 1987 ) . |
| 30 | A glass of wine — red or white — contains about 15% of the recommended daily amount of iron for a man ; 10% for a woman . |