adequate amount

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adequate
adjective
uk
/ˈæd.ə.kwət/us
/ˈæd.ə.kwət/
enough or satisfactory for a ...
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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 ofadequateandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If perennials can fix anadequateamountof carbon to make them viable crops, the question becomes one of harvest index rather than trade-off.
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This is that the possession of anadequateamountof land for subsistence is the best single ingredient of rural survival strategies in the area.
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It does not provide rations inadequateamountunless there are opportunities for stockpiling.
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While that may be factually correct, it is based on the assumption that £3 in 1964 was anadequateamountfor expenses.
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That is for someone who is earning anadequateamountfrom his self-employed occupation.
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Many of us think that a penny rate would possibly not be anadequateamount.
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There are many areas in which there is anadequateamountof housing.
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Is that indicative of the fact that anadequateamountof land is available?
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This was anadequateamountin the early days, but now even £550 million is inadequate.
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On the third point about whether this is anadequateamount, it is difficult to judge future trends.
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There would still have been anadequateamount.
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Hard though local authorities work to meet that need, they simply do not have anadequateamountof housing.
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We shall thus be continuing our policy of replacement, and leaving anadequateamountof tonnage to be built next year.
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The association tried to work out the lowest benefit level at which such people could buy anadequateamountof food for the week.
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A figure of £700 million out of externally-generated resources is by no measure anadequateamountof capital expenditure to be financed out of revenue.
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We ought to make sure at least that these people are given anadequateamounton which to live while their earning capacity is reduced.
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The operation of the levy grant system will also stimulate firms to do anadequateamountof training.
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It would be a mistake to appoint a large number of people at the beginning without giving them anadequateamountof work to do.
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The position was simply that that company, during its operations over 25 years, had saved up anadequateamountof reserves for future development.
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That appears to me to be anadequateamountof time.
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