fair amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffairandamount
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fair
adjective
uk/feər/us/fer/
treating someone in a way that is right or reasonable, or treating a group of people equally and not allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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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 offairandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffair amount
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There is afairamountof disagreement as to which is more efficient.
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Finally, despite afairamountof variation, they attest to the relative grammatical stability of creoles.
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When the cloud cover is discussed (starting on page 46), afairamountis said about satellite-derived data.
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This principle has afairamountof plausibility.
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There is afairamountof overlap between the papers.
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Infectious disease epidemiologists will also benefit, though they will need to be willing to tolerate afairamountof mathematical reasoning.
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For the terminologically disadvantaged, there is a useful glossary of technical terms (341-350), though the explanations presuppose afairamountof linguistic sophistication.
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As reported in all these studies, however, there is afairamountof variability in speakers' intuitions of syllabification, even when dialect is controlled for.
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All pearls are refereed (including my own), and there is often afairamountof polishing as a result of the reviewing stage.
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And the law notoriously sustains afairamountnon-meshing, pockets of anti-coordination, and so on, so the overall picture usually looks more modular than homogeneous.
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The second method, analyzed in section 5, therefore, involves a little more brute force while still allowing for afairamountof portfolio selection.
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This is a respectable point of view, which carries afairamountof conviction.
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The framework also allows afairamountof flexibility in neighborhoods.
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These distinctions are important because there is broad agreement that afairamountof concentration is needed to sustain an open trade regime.
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In turn, this link has met with afairamountof scepticism.
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She had indeed received afairamountof exposure to the target language (14 months) at the time of the first recording.
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This is a tedious task that requires afairamountof experience.
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Afairamountof descriptive research in the field of second language acquisition has looked at the presence of what have been labeled corrective recasts.
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For trust, the categories are: (1) a lot; (2) afairamount; (3) not very much; and (4) not at all.
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