amount of data

collocation in English

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amount
noun[C]
uk
/əˈmaʊnt/
us
/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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data
noun[U, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈdeɪ.tə/
us
/ˈdeɪ.t̬ə/
information, especially facts or numbers, collected to be examined and considered and used to help decision-making, or information in an electronic form that can be stored and used by ...
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(Definition ofamountanddatafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofamount of data

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As a result, theamountofdataanalysed is tremendous.
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It was, therefore, difficult to collect a significantamountofdatafrom speakers in this age group.
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Since all information is related to one single coordinate system, integration of a largeamountofdatais possible.
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Although an incredibleamountofdatahad been collected, in the subsequent analysis several problems were encountered.
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Due to the vastamountofdata, a selection of the results which serve to demonstrate the principles is presented in this paper.
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We have become used to considering one million words as a very largeamountofdataindeed, and certainly it is.
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However, to date, such studies are rare and the smallamountofdatathat do exist are insufficient to test alternative predictions.
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But the overhead of stop-and-copy garbage collection is related only to the totalamountofdatalive at garbage collection time.
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It is important that key cost-generating events are identified before study design, if possible, to reduce theamountofdatacollection required.
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At present such general conclusions regarding urban history are of necessity tentative because of the limitedamountofdatain relation to different urban morphologies.
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This provides a flexible way to browse a largeamountofdatathat scales well for medium/large-size library.
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In attempting to understand their perspectives, one is frustrated by theamountofdatasimply omitted.
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In addition to ethnographic observations, we collected a largeamountofdatafrom one of the projects on which the designers had worked.
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Out of 10, only nine terms had sufficientamountofdatafor performing the 2 -test, call processing record ranked fifth among them.
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Such explanation is certainly somewhat speculative taking into account a limited scope and relatively smallamountofdataused in this study.
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The following discussion is based on a very smallamountofdata, so it should be considered as somewhat provisional in nature.
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He has also compiled a hugeamountofdatafrom the field, of which the bulk of his writing consists.
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Certainly, with such a limitedamountofdatathere can be no firm conclusions.
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Since the inhabitants of both worlds would be missing only a minuteamountofdatahowever, we should expect such mistakes to be only occasional.
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