quantity of food
collocation in Englishmeaningsofquantityandfood
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quantity
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈkwɒn.tə.ti/us/ˈkwɑːn.t̬ə.t̬i/
the amount or number of something, especially that can ...
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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 ofquantityandfoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thequantityoffoodclearly contributed to the quality of the event.
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Furthermore, both the quality andquantityoffooddeclined and was reflected in the nutritional status of children.
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Compulsory labour and confinement, not thequantityoffood, enforces less eligibility.
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I am sure that this is a prerequisite to getting any substantially greaterquantityoffoodproduced than we are producing at the moment.
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By means of rationing, an equalquantityoffoodis made available to all.
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He referred to thequantityoffoodconsumed in this country during 1953 and said that we had paid more for less food.
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The effect is far deeper than is proportional to the merequantityoffood.
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These lands, although they do produce food, produce a relatively smallquantityoffoodto the acre.
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Those authorities now know the actualquantityoffoodwhich the body requires before it can profit from physical training.
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Thequantityoffoodfor inmates is determined by reference not to cash budgets but to dietary scales designed to meet agreed nutritional requirements.
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I wish now to turn from prices and wages to food, looking at it from the angle of thequantityoffoodconsumed.
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Thequantityoffoodfor inmates is determined not by reference to cash budgets but to dietary scales designed to meet agreed nutritional requirements.
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We shall be paying, possibly, more for the samequantityoffood.
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There is no doubt whatever that you can produce from the fields a greatquantityoffoodby the use of chemical fertilizers.
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I am informed that a largequantityoffoodwas presented anonymously to hospitals and other institutions.
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I also cannot believe that this country requires thequantityoffoodwhich we at present import.
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They have always tried to produce a sufficientquantityoffoodwithout any subvention.
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Inmates are fed to a predetermined dietary scale which provides them with a setquantityoffoodand is therefore not affected by inflation.
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We fully realise that the small tins are of very great importance, but we cannot limit the totalquantityoffoodimported to them.
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Such a programme could be fulfilled without cutting down by one pound thequantityoffoodproduced in this country.
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