Collocations withamount
These are words often used in combination withamount.
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actual amount
Thus, it is very possible to give away more than half the actual amount.
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adequate amount
If perennials can fix an adequate amount of carbon to make them viable crops, the question becomes one of harvest index rather than trade-off.
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aggregate amount
The amount remaining after deducting the estimated amount of these specific grants is the aggregate amount of the rate support grant.
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amazing amount
In spite of all the difficulties and obstacles in obtaining data in these institutions, the authors have succeeded in tape-recording an amazing amount of authentic, spontaneous interactions.
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amount of aid
No amount of aid, however, can substitute for commitment and action by the government itself.
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amount of alcohol
This curvilinear relationship may also depend on amount of alcohol consumed.
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amount of assistance
Accurate information about the cumulative amount of assistance was unavailable and should be considered an additional limitation of the present study.
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amount of attention
In fact, the scarcity of the actual examples is disproportional to the huge amount of attention this construction has received in the syntactic literature.
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amount of blood
A small amount of blood was used to determine haemoglobin concentrations.
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amount of caffeine
Chocolate derived from cocoa beans contains a small amount of caffeine.
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amount of calcium
Cement was also applied at 525 kg ha71 at -owering to supply the same amount of calcium oxide (320 kg ha71).
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amount of capital
A smaller amount of capital would, if promptly mobilized towards an unexplored location or market, work effectively and produce a large amount of profit.
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amount of carbon
The low amount of carbon and other admixtures as well as the annealing process result in a steel with a soft magnetic behaviour.
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amount of cash
That is, the interbank rates do not create the incentives for individual banks to hold a correct amount of cash reserves.
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amount of chlorine
By analysis the amount of chlorine was found to be 0*91 grain per gallon.
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amount of courage
For these procedures a certain amount of courage and a lot of craftsmanship is required.
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amount of coverage
During the 2000 race, both networks accorded the three main candidates roughly the same amount of coverage, and residual biases in tone were relatively subtle.
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amount of currency
The buyer agent for each production unit is centrally assigned a certain amount of currency in order to purchase the factors of production that it requires to meet its targets.
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amount of damage
Therefore, one may also expect the amount of damage to the respective crop to affect the group probabilities.
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amount of data
As a result, the amount of data analysed is tremendous.
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amount of debris
A considerable amount of debris is caused by dumping from ships at sea.
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amount of debt
Nevertheless, many states did impose a limit on capital stock, and also on the amount of debt that a corporation could accumulate.
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amount of discretion
The hypotheses have also considered the amount of discretion granted to states in directives' provisions.
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amount of dividend
The income he receives from his shares in the company is the amount of dividend that is paid upon those shares.
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amount of documentation
That is, no amount of documentation can even begin to represent the totality of suffering.
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amount of dust
Operations beyond this period will depend on the amount of dust deposited on the rover's solar panels.
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amount of electricity
A bill based on the weight of the copper (and later zinc), and hence the amount of electricity used, was sent to the household.
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amount of energy
These values, such as heat capacity of oil, insulator constant, amount of energy pumped into heater, mass of robot, etc., are derived from the experiment.
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amount of equity
Second, banks that offer their services are required by regulation to hold a certain amount of equity.
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amount of explosives
Nor is the firework company under any obligation to ensure that the person taking delivery is competent to handle such an enormous amount of explosives.
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amount of fat
The amount of fat is indicated by the difference between these two measures.
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amount of feedback
Finally, the amount of feedback from performing the work is also very important.
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amount of fertilizer
This had significant consequences for the types of land preparation and for the amount of fertilizer applied.
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amount of flexibility
The framework also allows a fair amount of flexibility in neighborhoods.
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amount of fluid
These methods mainly vary the amount of fluid engulfed into the shear layer and do not directly influence the small-scale mixing.
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amount of food
In our experiment, copepods were supplied with a comparatively high amount of food, and there was no competition for resources between the copepods.
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amount of fuel
The amount of fuel was varied between the four capsules to change the yield, implosion velocity, and shell thickness.
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amount of funding
The amount of funding was limited, and significant numbers of schemes were initiated outside the formal channels, only to be drawn in later after completion.
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amount of gas
The amount of gas accumulating was measured by its radioactivity as counted by beta detectors.
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amount of heat
The amount of heat generated depends on the current flowing through the conductors and volume occupied by the conductors.
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amount of hydrogen
Only in the reduced state will the amount of hydrogen that forms be proportional to the amount of ferrous iron that is released from the rock and oxidize.
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amount of information
This is necessarily a rather simplified listing, given the need to cover a huge amount of information in a small part of a chapter.
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amount of ink
It is assumed that an approximately equal amount of ink was marked on each paper, therefore this should not affect the results.
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amount of insulin
In healthy individuals, basal rate is monitored by the pancreas, which provides a regular amount of insulin at all times.
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amount of iron
Two-thirds of the total amount of iron (4 g) is located within haemoglobin.
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amount of liquid
The gas evolved quickly saturated the small amount of liquid, readily making the phase change from liquid to gas.
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amount of litigation
There are many comparatively small places where the amount of litigation is not very great.
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amount of material
It is therefore possible to separate the verb and the trace by an arbitrarily large amount of material.
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amount of mercury
Yet it is a huge amount of mercury.
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amount of methane
Prediction of the amount of methane produced by ruminants.
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amount of moisture
The amount of moisture was expressed as millimetres of dew.
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amount of money
If a head of service had a small additional amount of money to spend, this was often used internally to upgrade staff with limited competition.
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amount of nicotine
It is recommended that the amount of nicotine, tar and volatile irritants contained in each cigarette should be printed on the packet.
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amount of nitrogen
Measurement of amount of nitrogen fixed by a legume crop.
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amount of oil
The amount of oil was minimal, just enough to cover the surface of the drop.
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amount of oxygen
In addition, from (5.2), the total amount of oxygen being consumed by the cells also increases.
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amount of packaging
By increasing the amount of packaging reused, producers are therefore able to reduce their costs of compliance.
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amount of paperwork
We already have an exorbitant amount of paperwork which decreases actual patient contact.
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amount of phosphorus
It has been shown that the amount of phosphorus lost to surface waters increases linearly with the amount of phosphorus in the soil.
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amount of plutonium
The amount of plutonium in the burial pits does not exceed 20kg and may be much less.
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amount of pollution
Cost-benefit analysis seeks to find the "optimal" amount of pollution; the alternative approach is to seek to minimise pollution.
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amount of potassium
The color is due to a large amount of potassium feldspar.
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amount of pressure
A certain amount of pressure to liberalise and move towards market opening is therefore certainly very important for the national railway companies.
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amount of protein
Thus, the amount of protein, carbohydrate, water, etc. in biological materials affects the near-infrared spectra.
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amount of publicity
There has been a terrific amount of publicity about local authorities allowing rent arrears to build up.
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amount of respect
It was clearly written with amusement and a certain amount of respect for a creative process that breaks down society's inhibitions.
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amount of revenue
The first is when the government has to raise an exogenously specified amount of revenue without recourse to lump-sum taxation.
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amount of scepticism
In turn, this link has met with a fair amount of scepticism.
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amount of sodium
Animals of the control group received a similar amount of sodium alginate pellets prepared without fungus and mixed in the same quantity of supplement feed.
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amount of space
The study found that only a few of the books examined devoted a substantial amount of space to this topic.
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amount of sugar
The shopkeeper sent down some tea and a generous amount of sugar.
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amount of time
The aim of this research was to explore the amount of time available for intervention with a mass vaccination campaign.
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amount of tissue
The survival impact of pulmonary resection in 'oligometastatic' breast cancer is probably limited and attempts should be made to limit the amount of tissue removed.
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amount of variance
Measures limitations may explain the relatively small amount of variance accounted for in analyses predicting psychological and behavioral outcomes from risk scores.
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amount of venom
He would inject a certain amount of venom into his remarks.
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amount of waste
The disposal cost is equal to the amount of waste disposed multiplied by the unit cost of disposal.
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amount of water
The overall amount of water pumped between tanks is proportional to the total volume of water in the system.
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amount of zinc
It is remarkable that some entities on the two pages show a slightly different amount of zinc in its ink composition.
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ample amount
This is an ample amount of time to initiate and complete the labile stage of saccadic program.
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appropriate amount
This method was performed in four different tubes, each containing the appropriate amount of one of the four terminators.
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astonishing amount
In a mere 155 small-format pages he covers an astonishing amount of g round, both biographically and musically.
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average amount
Political experience is the average amount of experience that ministers have in any significant cabinet portfolio.
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certain amount
These results lend support to the hypothesis that there is a certain amount of redundancy between the discourse marker and the linguistic context.
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considerable amount
This work calls for a considerable amount of manual dexterity but after a time it becomes monotonous and largely mechanical.
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copious amount
For example, the copious amount of guidance that has accompanied community care legislation has been notoriously inconsistent and created problems for practitioners.
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decent amount
It would give them the ability to wield a decent amount of strength in the marketplace.
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desired amount
The walking speed of the sprayer operator was gauged initially to deliver the desired amount of spray over the area requiring treatment.
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disproportionate amount
In such situations, should physicians engage in defensive violations to ensure that their patients do not bear a disproportionate amount of the burden?
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endless amount
So, the endless amount of study of "labor supply" that focuses on hours and participation strikes me as a very small part of the true dimensions of labor supply.
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enormous amount
There was an enormous amount of skepticism, and the budget added to that skepticism.
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equivalent amount
This is equivalent to the loss in revenue from agriculture due to cultivating an equivalent amount of fodder obtained from forests on agricultural land.
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exact amount
Steps are now being taken to calculate the exact amount involved but this work cannot be completed until after production has ceased.
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excessive amount
Type inference is an important feature and relieves the user from providing an excessive amount of type information.
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exorbitant amount
We already have an exorbitant amount of paperwork which decreases actual patient contact.
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extraordinary amount
We measured everything in three dimensions: it was very precise and what we found is that there was an extraordinary amount of movement.
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fair amount
There is a fair amount of disagreement as to which is more efficient.
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finite amount
It is natural to ask about systems with a finite amount of smoothness.
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fixed amount
He supplies a fixed amount of time (normalized to 1) for work each period.
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generous amount
Another excellent feature of this book is the generous amount of background provided.
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given amount
It is positive because the firm will prefer a given amount of benefit today rather than in the future.
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greatest amount
But despite its flexibility, depicting will tend to require the greatest amount of interactional work.
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huge amount
There is not a huge amount of syntactical sense to be had here, on the page at least, and this is intentional.
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immense amount
It also demonstrates the immense amount of work still to be done in this field.
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increased amount
First, the presence of intra- and extra-cardiac communications between the systemic and pulmonary circulations and, second, the increased amount of intracardiac surgery performed.
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increasing amount
Existing audio tools handle the increasing amount of computer audio data inadequately.
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incredible amount
Although an incredible amount of data had been collected, in the subsequent analysis several problems were encountered.
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infinite amount
In general, every state of the final coalgebra represents an infinite amount of information.
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inordinate amount
Adolescents spend an inordinate amount of time with friends.
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insignificant amount
There was an insignificant amount of residual blood clot in the open pericardium, but no blood in the pleural cavities.
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insufficient amount
However, analysis of qualitative data did provide some evidence to suggest that patients may have been provided with an insufficient amount of information regarding the self-help service objectives.
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large amount
The other 2 major membrane proteins (56000 and 53000 daltons) were also present in large amount in all insoluble fractions.
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lesser amount
A higher glutathione content in oocytes may lead to retention of more glutathione than in those oocytes with a lesser amount of glutathione after fertilisation.
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limited amount
However, the limited amount of research available suggests that clinical governance leaders may experience concerns about the implementation of the process at a local level.
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massive amount
Several mechanisms have evolved to produce the massive amount of variation necessary to make the immune system work.
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maximum amount
A defendant also can sink costs and thus reduce the maximum amount that she is prepared to pay in settlement.
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measurable amount
In the past two years, we have focused on numeracy and literacy, where standards have risen by the biggest measurable amount ever.
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minimal amount
Indeed, retrieval from memory requires a minimal amount of cognitive effort and attention, and hence interferes minimally with other operations.
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minimum amount
Complete substitution between physical and social wellbeing is not possible because a person has to have a minimum amount of both.
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minuscule amount
A minuscule amount of justification may lie behind a few of them.
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moderate amount
A moderate amount of secure behavior and very little resistant behavior were reported through the 54th day of placement.
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modest amount
This is because grid geometries can be highly irregular, thus allowing only a modest amount of coarsening.
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negligible amount
This means the shoulder angle sensory information contains a negligible amount of motion acceleration compared to gravity acceleration.
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nominal amount
We have assumed the latter and deflated the nominal amount by an assumed rate of inflation of 2.25 per cent (which is the government's own forecast).
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optimal amount
Therefore, since the private and social benefits from innovation coincides, and similarly for the costs, the emissions tax induces the optimal amount of innovation.
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overwhelming amount
The overwhelming amount of decontextualized data, changes in their work routines, and redistribution of clinical tasks all may contribute to errors.
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precise amount
Through this business-government negotiation process, the precise amount of and incremental schedule for pollution charges has also been decided by industry.
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principal amount
The magnitudes of the dollar exchanges are determined by the ' notional ' or principal amount of the swap to which per dollar return differences apply.
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prodigious amount
The other is that it involves the most prodigious amount of form filling.
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proper amount
Agents might assure survey researchers that they were receiving the proper amount of credit, despite the fact that they were in fact assigned a lower-than-optimal level.
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reasonable amount
However, it is not possible to solve such equations in a reasonable amount of computer time for arbitrarily complex structures.
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reduced amount
This allows us to find not only very good results but also to find them in a relatively reduced amount of time.
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relative amount
Figure 3 compares the relative amount of two different dimensions of modality out of all the modal expressions analysed for the expository texts.
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ridiculous amount
The ridiculous amount of money being spent on public relations could be cut without affecting the provision of services.
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right amount
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on halting the rising crime rate?
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sheer amount
Within the medieval section the themes become blurred because of the sheer amount of information.
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short amount of time
An explanation for this result could be the relatively large number of psychotherapy sessions in a short amount of time.
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significant amount
The no-credit-control regime has a significant amount of residual uncertainty.
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sizeable amount
Its main resources included a sizeable amount of rents from herdades, mainly in the surrounding region.
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small amount
Therefore, just a very small amount of ionization takes place inside the sheath.
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specified amount
The first is when the government has to raise an exogenously specified amount of revenue without recourse to lump-sum taxation.
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staggering amount
This book covers a staggering amount of ground with clarity and precision.
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substantial amount
Elucidation of the exact nature of social dysfunction in schizophrenia will require a substantial amount of further research.
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sufficient amount
Therefore, if a sufficient amount of fiat money is supplied, the fixed asset (land) need not play the role of commodity money in the equilibrium.
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surprising amount
This paper shows that a surprising amount of generic programming can be done without such extensions.
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tiny amount
Let each person in the low-level distribution have just a tiny amount of lower pleasure.
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total amount
Secondly, we consider whether the total amount of value conflict affects partisan stability by testing the total effect of all the value-conflict measures.
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trace amount
Reducing sugars, such as fructose, glucose and galactose, were present in trace amount and were not quantified.
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tremendous amount
This is a dense book that contains a tremendous amount of information for the reader to digest.
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trivial amount
That would be met if the authority remitted merely a trivial amount.
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undetermined amount
Concussion symptoms can last for an undetermined amount of time depending on the player and the severity of the concussion.
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undisclosed amount
The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
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unlimited amount
The monkey was given an unlimited amount of time to respond to each stimulus presentation.
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unprecedented amount
In spite of the unprecedented amount of house building in the inter-war period, the geographical spheres of in-uence of both builders and architects were highly localized.
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unspecified amount
First, when a genitive nominal is a mass noun or a plural noun, it designates an unspecified amount of what is designated by the nominal.
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unusual amount
Particularly welcome is the unusual amount of attention paid to the north here.
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varying amount
The unfolded state contains varying amount of structure, depending on the solution condition and temperature.
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vast amount
I think that the counter-argument can be put more strongly than this : given the vast amount of input, language acquisition is a long haul.
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