substantial amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubstantialandamount
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substantial
adjective
uk/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/us/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/
large in size, value, ...
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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 ofsubstantialandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsubstantial amount
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Elucidation of the exact nature of social dysfunction in schizophrenia will require asubstantialamountof further research.
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There will be some older people with asubstantialamountof resources available to them in the form of home equity.
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For some people, paid work involves asubstantialamountof their physical activity, but this is lost on retirement.
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For developing countries, however, r probably exceeds 3.5% by asubstantialamount.
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Many of the architects we interviewed claimed to have asubstantialamountof 'repeat business'.
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Asubstantialamountof work has been devoted to steps (1) and (2), but there have been surprisingly few attempts at tackling step (3).
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The study found that only a few of the books examined devoted asubstantialamountof space to this topic.
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Reviews 173 is asubstantialamountof variation, with some trade-off between prosodic independence and tonal subordination.
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On the other hand, there is asubstantialamountof phenotypic covariance, and genetic and shared environmental influences contribute substantially to this overlap.
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There has been asubstantialamountof research on this topic, but the issues are still far from settled.
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Extraction of the organic remains from the stony matrix, a process both laborious and delicate, required asubstantialamountof money.
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In recent years, asubstantialamountof research on bilingualism has been focused on metalinguistic performance.
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In addition to the local output, these two centres received asubstantialamountof textiles from neighbouring areas.
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Across the seven texts we do see asubstantialamountof borrowing.
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If only the relatively small number who provided asubstantialamountof support worked few hours, an overall correlation would not have been detected.
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It then proceeds to address some of the main themes and trends associated with what, by any measure, is asubstantialamountof recent research.
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Participants had to absorb asubstantialamountof information.
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It is therefore unlikely that these costs exceed by anysubstantialamountplaintiff's costs of preparing a complaint.
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The main exception is for informal care, which accounted for asubstantialamountof cost before and after the interventions.
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