an amount

Example Sentences

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Minutes from one Valley Bureau Foundation meeting last year show Stearn claimed to have raised more than $100,000 for the LAPD, an amount that far exceeds what is listed in Police Commission records.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

It is an amount that very few Gazans can afford.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Researchers in Finland have achieved a major advance in ultra-sensitive measurement technology by detecting an amount of energy smaller than one zeptojoule, less than a trillionth of a billionth of a joule.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

The terms of the contract were steep: After a grace period, Odessa would have to pay roughly $24,000 annually to maintain its membership, an amount that could increase and had no cap.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

Anatole earned a stipend from student teaching, an amount the other graduate students called a “pittance,” though it was much more than he and I had ever earned together in any year.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver