right amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrightandamount
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right
adjective
uk/raɪt/us/raɪt/
correct:
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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 ofrightandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofright amount
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Are we spending too much, too little, or about therightamounton halting the rising crime rate?
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There is a delicate balance about what constitutes just therightamountof information.
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I particularly like the way that the author presents her readers with just therightamountof detail about each of the strategies she reviews.
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The courageous person feels fear and confidence to just therightamountgiven the circumstances.
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The main issue was establishing therightamountof social distance.
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This would be, in our opinion, therightamountof content a node of an anatomically constrained localist neural network could hold.
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So, the traditional account cannot deliver therightamountof moral credit in the right way to its proper object.
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This will drive the computation exactly therightamountfor constructing the tree below the node in question.
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Pupils were asked to indicate for each element whether the course contained too much, too little or therightamountof work on each of the elements.
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Thus, though local contains therightamountof information in the case of gaps, it actually contains more information than required in the case of (pronominal) affixes.
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The money that customers receive when they pay for something with more money than it costs because they do not have exactly therightamountof money is change.
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The problem to solve is twofold: first therightamountof resources at the right time should be produced, then these resources should be distributed to the right consumers.
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It is easy to find your way around this grammar, the design and layout are clear and the tables of contents and indexes have therightamountof detail.
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I would like to see the contract which states that what we have been paying is therightamountof money.
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Averages are not an adequate solution when just therightamountis crucial from the point of view of the consumer and the environment.
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The consultative function deserves therightamountof space and the time needed for analysis and adjustment to the general framework.
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The benefit integrity project is simply about ensuring that disabled people receive therightamount of disability living allowance—the amount to which they are entitled.
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This is an important issue, and we must try to allow therightamountof time to debate it.
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Of those, 32,500 people were found initially not to be receiving therightamountof benefit.
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