decent amount

collocation in English

meaningsofdecentandamount

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decent
adjective
uk
/ˈdiː.sənt/us
/ˈdiː.sənt/
socially acceptable ...
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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 ofdecentandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It would give them the ability to wield adecentamountof strength in the marketplace.
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However, we suggest that for the non-urgent cases 120 days is adecentamountof time for parliamentary scrutiny.
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They want to know the sort of franchise that they will get before they commit adecentamountof money to new investment.
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There could be some reward for employers that run good schemes to which they contribute adecentamount.
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A teacher deserves adecentamountof money so that he can speak his mind from a position of honour.
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Thirdly, if people are not to continue, they should have adecentamountof notice of that fact.
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One has to keep quite adecentamountof capital for that.
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The issues are all major, and we should have had adecentamountof time to consider them.
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And these men make quite adecentamountof money by prison standards; but they are very few.
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You must not take your officers from men who cannot write a short letter with adecentamountof spelling according to orthodox rules.
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They are living in one room, and if adecentamountof out-relief were given they could get another room.
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We should not only honour- our carers, but give them a sensible anddecentamountof support.
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If they intend to take adecentamountof time to make proposals, consult, listen and seek our approval, no harm whatsoever will come from accepting the new clause.
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Will he use the unclaimed assets in banks and building societies so that the general public, who have been so badly affected, can receive adecentamountof money?
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The first is the fire petal, which is a stream of white-hot fireballs that can deal adecentamountof damage.
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There is adecentamountof traffic that allows them to have a lengthy conversation.
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However, mutants deal adecentamountof damage to the commandos and even more with their strong attack (right click).
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The station played the best mix of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and adecentamountof current product.
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The kites were built for precision, and were often fairly large and generated adecentamountof pull.
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This was met with adecentamountof critics approval, labeling them as a dance unit.
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