increasing amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincreaseandamount
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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(Definition ofincreaseandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofincreasing amount
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Existing audio tools handle theincreasingamountof computer audio data inadequately.
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A trade-o exists between pruning nodes from the search tree versus performing anincreasingamountof work per node.
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In addition, local practitioners and clients will need new knowledge to select, interpret and adapt anincreasingamountof global information, standards, technologies and products.
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In conclusion, people become more and more selfish with anincreasingamount, and are not punished for that.
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A common feature of contemporary political systems is theincreasingamountof delegation from governments to non-majoritarian institutions.
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The gentry also seem to have played a part in generating anincreasingamountof business for the town's firms.
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For schoolchildren, the risk of illness increased withincreasingamountof water consumed.
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The approach was based on a hierarchical arrangement of knowledge with anincreasingamountof detail applied at lower levels of the structure.
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Since then, anincreasingamountof scholarly work has been devoted to the topic of opera and cinema.
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Thus, during further task processing steps, the degree of the system's autonomy increases with theincreasingamountof acquired environmental information.
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An unexpected and fascinating trend borne out by recent surveys and reports is theincreasingamount of work being done in mainstream schools (see below).
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With anincreasingamount, we see that the first player keeps more to himself and that this behavior is accepted by the second player.
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The strength of this meta-analysis is that it applies strict methodological criteria to this field with itsincreasingamountof empirical data.
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Clearly, they decrease with anincreasingamount.
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However, the dyadic likelihood is a consistent estimator and is thus expected to show a decreasing bias with anincreasingamountof information (here number of loci).
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In order to narrow these regions to areas which are more amenable to molecular characterization, there has been anincreasingamountof interest in fine-mapping techniques.
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This decrease, however, could be a result of theincreasingamountof coarse fraction in the clays that is connected with a higher number of ostracodes.
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It is in this environment that patients are now managed, rather than cared for and health care professionals have anincreasingamountin common with production line workers.
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In recent years, anincreasingamountof research has been carried out to describe the changes that take place in children's spellings and to examine the mechanisms behind these changes.
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