14 example sentences using amount.
Amount used in a sentence
Amount in a sentence as a noun
This is a very hard thing for a CEO to do, and he deserves a large amount of credit for doing this.
Tech companies should not therefore look to Big Corps who just hire large amounts of unskilled labor.
Given the large amount of password reuse and poor password choices it is not improbable that this is the complete password file.
"But there's no denying that this is by several times the largest amount ever paid for a patent portfolio.
The general tone and specifically the mention of the founder's wife in this post gives a huge amount of credence to Julie's claims.
Take the least amount of stock possible - your startup is statistically unlikely to succeed.
A decent amount of history looks like people trying to force their culture, their nationality, and their genes forward through history.
Amount in a sentence as a verb
The objective of a labor intensive business is to drive costs down the lowest possible amount legally.
The sheer amount of fakeness delivered through ads and ******** mass media has made us very interested in "real" things, in hanging out with our friends, in starting families.
I learned a crazy amount of JavaScript, some pretty advanced debugging / performance profiling techniques, and even gave some talks.
I would image the tubes will be joined with automated friction stir welding or something similiar, but that will still require a fair amount of post weld machining which has its own pitfalls.
It saved a small number of companies a relatively small amount of money, but was on the net a huge negative for the overall economic because it basically pumped lead directly into the bloodstream of children through their lungs, making them dumber.
Most of the owners could obviously afford to pay employees better given the incredible amounts of wealth that the factory owners have accumulated and having gone to school with some of their children, I know quite a few factory owners personally.
But this start-up model of hiring scales just fine to companies of 500-1,000 technical people if you're willing to create a culture where everyone, especially the top technical leadership, is personally invested in hiring and devotes a reasonable amount of time to evaluating people.
Amount definitions
a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion; "an adequate amount of food for four people"
how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
See also: total
be tantamount or equivalent to; "Her action amounted to a rebellion"
add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000"
develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans"
See also: come