excessive amount

collocation in English

meaningsofexcessiveandamount

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excessive
adjective
uk
/ekˈses.ɪv/us
/ekˈses.ɪv/
too ...
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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 ofexcessiveandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexcessive amount

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Type inference is an important feature and relieves the user from providing anexcessiveamountof type information.
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After haemofiltration, which probably eliminated theexcessiveamountof triiodothyronine, cardiovascular as well as renal functions returned to normal.
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The alveolar walls were abnormally thick and contained anexcessiveamountof connective tissue.
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These regions develop as a result of previously attached cells producing anexcessiveamountof extracellular polymers.
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We stopped using the computer for the third-order solution owing to theexcessiveamountof computing time required.
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Without a redistribution mechanism, the consumer would be faced with either a lack or anexcessiveamount of resources, leaving the system in an undesired state.
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It is absolutely essential to avoid anexcessiveamountof information which would be difficult for consumers to take on board.
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I regret that to give a list of individual towns would involve anexcessiveamountof staff time.
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I do not think, therefore, that anyone can consider that that is anexcessiveamount.
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This seems to be anexcessiveamountof money.
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It recognises that no household should have to pay anexcessiveamounttowards the provision of local services.
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The vast majority make their money honourably, but anexcessiveamountof pretension is put forward by the profession when it is protecting its interests.
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Before then the only place of meeting worst the public-house, and that is perhaps the reason why anexcessiveamountof drink was consumed.
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The preparation of such returns, if possible, would involve anexcessiveamountof labour.
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It would be impossible to make the distinction asked without anexcessiveamountof trouble and delay.
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Almost equally, it would like to hear that there is not anexcessiveamountof waste.
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One may have received and heard a ratherexcessiveamountof lobbying on behalf of specialised bodies and specialised interests.
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That is not anexcessiveamountfor something that is really going to help in this very great difficulty on the roads.
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We do not demand anexcessiveamountof compensation.
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They are saving anexcessiveamountof their production in order to pile up for the future.
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