I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a huge amount/sum/quantity etc
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huge sums of money
a tremendous amount of
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This plan could save us a tremendous amount of money.
an amount/a length of time
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Customers only have a limited amount of time to inspect the goods.
an equal number/amount
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Both candidates received an equal number of votes.
considerable amount/number etc of sth
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We’ve saved a considerable amount of money.
copious amounts
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He could drink copious amounts of beer without ill effect.
double the amount/number/size etc
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We’ll need double this amount for eight people.
double the size/number/amount etc (of sth)
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A promise was given to double the number of police on duty.
enormous amount of
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an enormous amount of money
excessive amounts of sth
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I was staying up late, consuming excessive amounts of coffee.
generous amount/helping/measure etc
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a generous helping of pasta
inordinate amount
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Testing is taking up an inordinate amount of teachers’ time.
insignificant number/amount
large amounts
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those who drink large amounts of coffee
limited number/amount/time etc
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There are only a limited number of tickets available.
maximum amount/number etc
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Work out the maximum amount you can afford to spend.
modest amount
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She had saved a modest amount of money.
predetermined level/limit/amount etc
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a predetermined level of spending
prodigious amounts/quantities of sth
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Some galaxies seem to release prodigious amounts of energy.
sizeable amount/number
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a sizeable amount of money
small amount
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a small amount of money
the exact amount/number/figure
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I don’t know the exact amount, but it was a lot.
twice the size/number/rate/amount etc
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an area twice the size of Britain
varying amounts
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Tap water may contain varying amounts of rust, grit and silt.
vast amounts/numbers/quantities/sums etc (of sth)
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The government will have to borrow vast amounts of money.
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The refugees come across the border in vast numbers .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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With a certain amount of ingenuity she can even use the balloon to steer herself by pointing it in various directions.
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This caused inconvenience and a certain amount of grumbling-what was taking so long?
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Therefore a certain amount of matching can always take place: contracts to buy can always be matched with contracts to sell.
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With a high turnover of owners, a certain amount of skepticism has been built into the rooms.
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They're contested, and require a certain amount of scientific literacy, which politicians seem to have even less of.
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No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of truth.
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A certain amount of violence occurred between supporters of Rauti and Fini.
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This calls for good spirits and good morale and also a certain amount of what was once called dogged determination.
considerable
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In these ways a considerable amount of knowledge of the landforms of the most explored regions has slowly accumulated.
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As is shown in Figures 15. 1c and 15. 2c, a considerable amount of waste crosses State lines.
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A&E staff spend a considerable amount of time in this type of work.
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There is, in fact, a considerable amount of intellectual insecurity in the press room.
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A considerable amount of time and money has been spent in pursuing the study of river basin dynamics.
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Conversely, the use of reliable and valid selection methods can save an organisation a considerable amount of money.
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But even after that long-winded exercise, a considerable amount remains.
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Ordinary people have lost a considerable amount of confidence in the authorities.
copious
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Great electrical bursts of dazzling blue and purple light explode behind copious amounts of dense smoke which obscures the entire stage.
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The most important thing you can do is to drink copious amounts of water.
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Her intestinal symptoms progressed and she vomited copious amounts of fluid every two to three hours.
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In one of my bags was a three-day supply of food and copious amounts of Pepto-Bismoj.
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He could drink copious amounts of beer without ill effect.
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No wonder Great Groups engage in water fights, drink copious amounts of beer, and arm wrestle.
enormous
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An enormous amount of detailed technical evidence on groundwater was presented during consideration of the earlier Bill.
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But what impressed me most was the enormous amount of sheer wasted space everywhere I happened to glance.
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There is an enormous amount of pressure on me.
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But, in fact, an enormous amount has been learned, particularly in the past ten years.
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In practice it involved an enormous amount of administration also.
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In that busy summer of 1933, Rice and his fellow academic utopians accomplished an enormous amount .
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The different approaches to industrial development have absorbed an enormous amount of resources and effort in the postwar period.
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WIiile they could work, those girls earned enormous amounts of money.
equal
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The first half was pretty even with both teams having equal amounts of play.
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The Port is considering supplying an equal amount .
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Approximately equal amounts of each are powdered and mixed together thoroughly.
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Top each with an equal amount of the yogurt and nutmeg.
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In spite of its quantitative sound, political equality never means having an equal amount of any chosen characteristic.
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Partners should contribute an equal amount of time to their business.
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The many gods do not share equal amounts of power.
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Rub spots with an equal amount of toothpaste and baking soda on a damp cotton cloth.
fair
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That involved a fair amount of travel.
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In the second generation this movement back and forth produced a fair amount of strain.
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Mr Broady painted a frightening picture of considerable violence and a fair amount of popular hostility to the police.
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People are taking the elections with a fair amount of cynicism.
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It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus.
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It may take hours to get it started, a fair amount of cursing and a few swift kicks.
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The local Station served the surrounding community and carried a fair amount of passenger and freight traffic.
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Thanks to the inherently leaky nature of the water industry, there is already a fair amount of information to go on.
full
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Or offer to pay what you think is fair - not the full amount .
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He says he found Scott had underbid one item by about $ 8, although it charged SunTran the full amount .
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The first woman spent the lot, the second spent half and banked the rest and the third invested the full amount .
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In other areas, social services will collect and pay the owner the full amount of money due.
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In other words the tax is not spread over previous transactions, but is charged on the full amount of the sale.
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Why he did not pay the full amount must remain a mystery.
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Parties will then negotiate as to whether once the limit is exceeded the full amount or merely the excess is claimable.
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And when she'd learned the full amount of the financial sums involved Laura hadn't felt too cheerful either.
great
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Darwin considered that male traits were strengthened by use and were transmitted in greater amounts to male offspring.
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Puebla has three hundred and sixty-five churches and in the world that is the greatest amount in one place.
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The follow-on P6 will represent an even greater though unstated amount of investment.
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By far the greatest amount of empirical research on democratic attitudes has been done in the United States.
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Employees posted to areas with a harsh climate generally receive greater amounts of leave than those in less severe climates.
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The more violent the oscillations the greater the amount of parasitic genetic material.
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Arcane bookkeeping procedures, however, probably conceal an even greater amount .
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Aristocrats may be rich and own a great amount of land, but they have no real power any more.
huge
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Surely even an idiot must realise that they wouldn't donate this huge amount out of the goodness of their hearts.
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This is a huge amount: cutting the work-week to four days would result in only a 20 percent reduction in commuting.
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They have become smaller, faster and able to store huge amounts of data.
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Seemingly minor calculations multiplied into huge amounts .
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The constituent parts of this promise do not seem to add up to a huge amount .
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The only answer is activity. Huge amounts of activity.
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Medicine differs from many other professions, however, in the huge amount of teaching expected from all of its practitioners.
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A final requirement is switching hardware and software to move huge amounts of data effortlessly over such a complex network.
inordinate
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Either keeping personal creditors accounts or making sundry creditors adjustments can consume inordinate amounts of administrative and accounting time.
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We were spending an inordinate amount of time sending people to different meetings and not knowing what was going on.
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In the Soviet context an inordinate amount of attention has been paid to the willed aims of Bolshevik leaders.
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But in reality, seat-side service is only feasible for those with teeny appetites and an inordinate amount of patience.
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That is why the social anthropologists are justified in devoting such an inordinate amount of attention to the field of kinship.
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But the Minnesota Timberwolves, who own the fifth pick, have shown an inordinate amount of interest in Nash.
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They devote an inordinate amount of time, effort and resource to developing high-calibre managers.
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We found ourselves spending an inordinate amount of time in the chariot, chasing hither and yon.
large
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Thaksin needs a large amount of funds if he is to honour the populist promises that got him elected.
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Drugs are pouring across in larger amounts .
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The letters can be chosen so that unwanted ones differ from the target by larger or smaller amounts .
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At some of the larger hotels the amount was said to approach six thousand.
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But major eruptions involve much larger amounts of energy.
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For one thing, digital photographs hold extraordinarily large amounts of data.
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Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin.
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Mitt Romney, the former Republican Senate nominee who contributed large amounts of his private fortune to his campaign against Sen.
limited
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The centres are essentially for advice and usually offer only a limited amount , if any, of further assistance.
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These notes are largely extracts and only contain a limited amount of comment.
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A major restriction in the cementation brass-making process was the limited amount of zinc which could be introduced into the alloy.
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The limited amount of discussion that members of the Working Party were able to hold with colleagues suggested a certain defensiveness.
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They are not capable of enjoying more than a limited amount of leisure.
maximum
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Accepted students will be informed in admission letters of the maximum amount required, which may be payable on enrolment.
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This is the maximum deductible amount for business mileage.
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But this is the fight that is going to give me the maximum amount of respect.
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No minimum or maximum amount has yet been set for what each system or eligible branch might receive.
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At the local level, too, there were calls for the maximum amount of latitude in self-administration.
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Their impeccable timing was usually designed to cause the maximum amount of ego deflation.
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This ensures that the maximum amount of pitch is available for landing.
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Nor does anybody know what the maximum amount of life-enhanced matter that our sun could support is.
right
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If your graphs and charts are showing an overall decrease in weight, then you know you are eating the right amounts .
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Definitive crust and right amount of chewiness inside.
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We can assess all the relevant factors for you, and produce the right amount of cash at the appropriate time.
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Endless bowls of hot tortilla chips are accompanied by a fresh salsa spiked with just the right amount of cilantro.
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If you inject the right amount you could feel like you had six glasses of your favourite tipple.
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In the spring they planted wheat and potatoes, and the weather was fine, with just the right amount of rain.
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Once the right amount is in the cylinder, another push on the lever sends the chemicals into the tank.
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Her secret combination of just the right amount of yeast, cinnamon and vanilla will never change, she said.
significant
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The presence of significant amounts of haemoglobin F has a protective effect against sickling and such individuals express relatively mild disease.
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Obviously, such a drastic revision created a significant amount of tension at the plant.
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In certain branches of engineering, liaison with clients and their sites can mean a significant amount of travelling for the engineer.
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Even after prolonged secondary hyperaldosteronism, human sweat still contains significant amounts of sodium.
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If there is a significant amount of blood in the urine.
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We should reclaim our leadership position by immediately sending a significant amount of food aid.
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Pumps in the backpack circulated water round the pipes without loosing significant amounts .
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Significant excretion of solute-free water can not occur unless significant amounts of solute and water reach this point.
small
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Orfe are ideal inhabitants for a planted pond, as they only eat small amounts of plant material.
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This means finding alternative routes to success, and it means measuring and treasuring success in small amounts .
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Better to feed small amounts at regular intervals.
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Cook over medium heat until a small amount dropped in cold water forms a ball.
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Even so, $ 50 million is a very small amount to reach six billion people.
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If necessary, add a small amount of milk to make spreading consistency.&038;.
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Earlier this month police in Brixton, south London, abandoned prosecuting people found with small amounts of the drug.
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It is desirable, therefore, to feed small amounts of food often rather than give them single large meals.
substantial
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Indeed, if you have followed through all the exercises in this book, you have done a substantial amount of work.
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We are continuing to examine evidence and following up on a substantial amount of information that we are receiving.
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Several Cowboys, most notably cornerback Deion Sanders, are due to receive substantial amounts of money that year.
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The actual outcome will almost certainly exceed this by a substantial amount .
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Conversely, many younger people will be the first generation in their family who can expect to inherit substantial amounts .
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Perhaps she would brighten up now that she had another substantial amount of cash to spend.
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BThe group has done a substantial amount of work that business owners appreciate.
tiny
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If you dislike the aroma, you have only wasted a tiny amount of essential oil.
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A tiny amount laced in a letter can be lethal.
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You will find a tiny amount will go a long way.
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In this form of diabetes, the pancreas stops making insulin or makes only a tiny amount .
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Garlic, for example, must only be used in tiny amounts or it will blister the skin.
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He takes the bottle from Julio, holds it close to his eyes and examines the tiny amount of rum remaining.
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Vitamins and minerals are only needed in tiny amounts for good health.
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A shower of debris including tiny amounts of blood from torn retinal vessels causes floaters.
tremendous
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I eat tremendous amounts of bread and jam and bowls of cornflakes with cold milk - delicious!
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Because each film will take up a tremendous amount of computer disk space, only one will be available at a time.
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Both games showed the tremendous amount of work needed in the Republic to restore the team to the top in international terms.
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Muddying the issue of how much pirated software is on the Internet is the tremendous amount of software legally available to download.
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There is also a tremendous amount of shared support amongst girls themselves.
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It creates a tremendous amount of conflict and dissatisfaction within the marriage.
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So I had a wonderful time filling in for him, and in the process learned a tremendous amount .
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Some high technology products require a tremendous amount of computer programming during the design phase.
vast
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Ocean racing is big business involving vast amounts of money.
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They were tying up vast amounts of capital in their trucking and warehousing operations.
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He said it cost a vast amount to build each new mile of motorway.
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The vast amounts of money are then laundered through the world's finance systems.
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The open choice of options accompanied by such a vast amount of student-centred learning provided challenges for both staff and students.
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He will simply rotate gently between the counter moving sheets. Vast amounts of labour will be saved.
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First, the state is now in charge of vast amounts of administrative and political information which is of direct relevance to individuals.
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The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time.
■ VERB
increase
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He was then able to start taking fluids by mouth in gradually increasing amounts .
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Simplifies tax filing for thousands of middle-income Californians by increasing the exemption amounts used in calculating the Alternative Minimum Tax.
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In addition, an expanding Kingston required increasing amounts of fruit and market garden produce which are currently the main products.
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In 1993, they increased the amount of merchandise purchased abroad by about 7 percent while holding the line on total purchasing.
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Staff will probably spend increasing amounts of time on devising simulations and developing assignments.
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And for fourteen years, Nucor had paid a dividend to its stockholders, increasing the amount of the dividend each year.
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Brown algae is generally an indication of quite low lighting levels and increasing the amount of light will overcome this problem.
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When those goals are respected, we may have the opportunity to spend increasing amounts .
limit
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But the response must be limited to the amount of force necessary to protect them.
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We want to limit the amount of time they are on there.
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It is these very services which can disable people, limiting the amount of real choice they have in their lives.
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He might also try to strictly limit the amount of time he spends there by scheduling other activities around his drinking.
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They limit the amount that has to be grasped in any one utterance.
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The second proposal would allow employees a limited amount of time off per year in return for working overtime.
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This constraint would effectively limit the amount of vehicles that a firm could service. 2.
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San Antonio agencies limit the amount of food dispensed and the number of people they serve, according to the survey.
raise
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We have raised more than the amount stipulated, and we plead with them to keep their side of the bargain.
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What is more, with the momentum his way the president is raising awesome amounts of money for Democratic campaigns.
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It seemed that we could just about raise the amount of the offer we had decided upon and still avoid bankruptcy.
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Dole flew on to Los Angeles for a dinner anticipated to raise a similar amount .
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For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount .
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Both major parties raised large amounts of soft money for use during the presidential campaign.
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This ought in theory to have raised the amount demanded by Wolsey, but would have taken much longer to collect.
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These surface bursts raise vast amounts of dust.
reduce
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It copies its elders and, by holding to its own task, reduces the amount it has to remember.
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Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki has 120 days to decide whether to reduce the money amounts .
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Of particular interest are genes that reduce the amount of a substance called lignin, or that weaken lignin's chemical structure.
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It also will reduce the amount of unrestricted stock to be issued in the transaction.
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This is supposed to reduce the amount of herbicide used in spraying fields, but in practice the converse happens.
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It would also reduce the amount of internal conflict we had within the organization.
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Pruning trees is a good way of controlling their growth, and reduces the amount of water extracted from the ground.
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The deficit also is growing because of an economic slowdown that has reduced the amount of taxes collected, government officials say.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ball-park figure/estimate/amount
a fair size/amount/number/bit/distance etc
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But a fair number of them went on to greater things.
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It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus.
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Scientists must proceed cautiously, moving ahead only with the assent of a fair number of their colleagues.
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Thanks to the inherently leaky nature of the water industry, there is already a fair amount of information to go on.
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That involved a fair amount of travel.
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There was a fair amount going on.
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They'd have a fair bit of tidying up to do before they left.
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You may also be involved in a fair amount of travel.
a goodly number/sum/amount etc
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It seems fair to assume that she will attract the attention of a goodly number of our countrymen.
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Small Dave had spent a goodly amount of time impressing upon him the importance of finding a camel.
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The Thatcher Years have been splendid ones for a goodly number of golf members throughout this Royal and Ancient land of ours.
amount/come to the same thing
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And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so-which amounts to the same thing.
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And literature will amount to the same thing: all writers are copycats.
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At once she thought: I could have taken two thousand, three - it would come to the same thing.
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Or rather, politics and morality come to the same thing.
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Or they act as if they do, which comes to the same thing.
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Since it formed a halo over the puck, did that amount to the same thing?
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The public purse would not get anything; after all, it all comes to the same thing.
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When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing.
it doesn't amount to a hill of beans
total number/amount/cost etc
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Additional disk space is a dollar or two per megabyte per month, depending on total amount.
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Microcell bid only in southern Ontario for a total cost of $ 19.2-million.
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Multiply the number of widths by the number of pattern repeats per drop to give the total number of pattern repeats required.
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The total amount of contributions and tax paid by each employee is entered on the P35.
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The total cost has been several million pounds more than budgeted.
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The total number of jobless rose to 615, 830 from 609, 670.
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The total number of registered voters was 1,732,000 aged 16 and over.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He expects to spend a similar amount on getting his daughter through college.
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He knows an enormous amount about Italian paintings.
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He was fined $300,000, an amount that would ruin the average householder.
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Heinz Co. acquired the ailing food company for an undisclosed amount .
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Please pay the full amount by the end of the month.
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She has a pension, and receives a small amount from her ex-husband.
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The amount of calories a person needs each day is determined by the type of work they do.
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The amount of car crime seems to be on the increase.
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The amount of tax you pay depends on how much you earn.
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The judge reduced the amount of money awarded to the victim.
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The water here contains small amounts of calcium and other minerals.
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There is growing alarm at the amount of violence on the streets of our city.
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Try to reduce the amount of fat in your diet.
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We spent an astonishing amount of money in town today.
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Work out the amount you spend each month on food and clothes.
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You must pay the full amount in advance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Children love to feed the fish, but you must make sure they understand the importance of giving the right amount .
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Losers are often very numerous and lose large amounts of their income.
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Marshall had taken to calling it the rumour factory because a disproportionate amount of time seemed to be wasted on chatter.
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Of particular interest are genes that reduce the amount of a substance called lignin, or that weaken lignin's chemical structure.
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The pillars of coal left behind were compressed, releasing large amounts of an explosive mixture of air and methane called firedamp.
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There seemed to be no limit to the amount of alcohol the jar would produce.
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They spent small amounts of money on load limitation experiments, but decided to do nothing.
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This is because the key factor in their diet is the amount of seafood they eat daily.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
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During 1981 - 2, three instalments were issued amounting to more than 2000 pages.
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For within market relations two new kinds of control, amounting in some cases to dominance, have become apparent.
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However, opponents charge that the new Internet regulations amount to unconstitutional censorship that would criminalize expression protected by the First Amendment.
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It is uncertain whether words alone can amount to an assault.
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She is now unable to work and receives benefits, including invalidity benefit, amounting to approximately £90.00 per week.
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Without that, no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters.