Examples of amounts in a Sentence

• 例句 amount
  1. There is a squat and fuss-free simplicity about its profile, which belies the amount of 'whoop-ass' that can be delivered with a prod of the accelerator pedal.
  2. The success of an attempt to acierate iron will depend on the amount of nitrogen contained by the iron during carburation.
  3. Once you've submitted a tax return, the Tax Department will assess the amount of tax you still owe.
  4. Don't be discouraged by the amount of work left to do: you'll finish it in good time.
  5. Your computer hibernates after it has been idle for the specified amount of time. — Microsoft Corp, Use Hibernate and Standby to Conserve Batteries (2001)
  6. A small amount of spin may incurve the ball.
  7. “In the event of congestion, the half percent of people who are overutilizing an excessive amount of capacity will be slowed down subtly until capacity is restored,” the chief technology officer for Comcast, Tony G. Werner, said.
  8. My taxes did not increase because the amount of my raise was set off by my losses in the stock market.
• 例句 amounts
  1. On arrival she was afebrile but tachycardic, with local peritonism in the left renal angle and left iliac fossa despite large amounts of opioid analgesia.
  2. Third, plants exposed to elevated CO 2 can produce larger amounts of organic compounds that enter the soil via rhizodeposition and litterfall [16 ].
  3. The morphological differences to sclerophylly are relatively few and mainly found in the amounts of sclerenchyma, leaf shape, and margins.
  4. At day 12, we observed no significant difference in the amounts of 15-HETE or 13-HODE from the histocultures placed in the infectious context as compared as the controls, although their mean values were greater than those at day 1 pi (Fig 3 ).
  5. Given the example of sponges, macropredators are capable to consume large amounts of sponge biomass in short time periods and are fast moving animals that do not spend much time at one prey individual.
  6. Eight animals (8/18) had variable amounts of subcutaneous edema, and 2/18 had serosanguineous peritoneal effusion.
  7. This dose resulted in a TAZ of 11 mg when administered to healthy adults as an aqueous solution postprandially with little being achieved by administering greater amounts (Figure 1).
• 例句 amounted
  1. He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
  2. His response amounted to gross insubordination
  3. The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.
  4. The suspects' hostile interrogation amounted to a public crucifixion.
  5. At that time, before sublineation had become significant for the local group, banishment would have amounted to dismissing a troublesome individual and his wife and children, rather than an entire sublineage consisting of several families ...
  6. the relatives who had been helping slipped away as I grew older, attriting for various reasons that all amounted to the same reason.
  7. 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations — The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.
  8. Even worse than the sand, though, was the grassy bank that comes down between the bunkers, where the rough was so thick it amounted to bogeyland.
• 例句 amounting
  1. [Aunt Dahlia] had done Wilbert well where sleeping accommodation was concerned. What he had drawn when clocking in at Brinkley Court was the room known as the Blue Room, a signal honour to be accorded to a bachelor guest, amounting to being given star billing, for at Brinkley, as at most country-houses, any old nook or cranny is considered good enough for the celibate contingent. My own apartment, to take a case in point, was a sort of hermit's cell in which one would have been hard put to it to swing a cat, even a smaller one than Augustus, not of course that one often wants to do much cat-swinging.

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