amount of food
collocation in Englishmeaningsofamountandfood
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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food
noun[C or U]
uk/fuːd/us/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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(Definition ofamountandfoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theamountoffoodthat was coming in could not be increased.
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In our experiment, copepods were supplied with a comparatively highamountoffood, and there was no competition for resources between the copepods.
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Deforestation is reduced because the household requires less land to produce the neededamountoffood.
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Theamountoffoodavailable in this instance being related to the relative fitness of the design solution as defined by the engineering system model.
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On the other hand, birds have very high energetic requirements, meaning that they need to eat a greatamountoffooddaily.
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Theamountoffoodprovided varied slightly according to the rate of consumption and the consistency of the faeces.
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Thus, what distinguishes between eat and overeat in this construal is nothing more than theamountoffoodeaten.
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At the end of their participation, boys were paid a smallamountoffoodor money for the time taken by the study.
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Type of diet also affected the growth rates andamountoffoodingested by larvae but did not affect the duration of the instar.
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When the fish approached the correct test field, a smallamountoffoodpaste was given.
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Amountoffoodconsumed and biomass gained were also analysed using a two-way analysis of covariance using initial larval weight as the covariate.
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We found no effect of treatment on theamountoffoodeaten or on caecal dropping production.
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Economic inaccessibility is due to the inability of groups of farm households to establish entitlement over a requisiteamountoffood.
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In monetary terms this seems a very low figure but it is possible that the labourers who did cultivate gardens produced a substantialamountoffood.
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We estimated the global organic food supply by multiplying theamountoffoodin the current (2001) food supply by a ratio comparing average organic : non-organic yields.
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Caregiver turnover and caregiver's assessments of duration and difficulty of assisted feeding andamountoffoodreceived by the patient.
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This view is correct if subsistence points are understood in a narrow sense such as the minimumamountoffood, clothing, and shelter necessary to sustain life.
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How do these motivational control systems operate to ensure that we eat approximately the correctamountoffoodto maintain our body weight or to quench our thirst?
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It will be noticed that if only a tenth part of the maximumamountoffoodbe given the period for larval development is increased about six times.
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To-day we are asking the farmers to do all that they can to provide us with the largestamountoffood.
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