ADEQUATE AMOUNT collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of adequate and amount
adequate
adjective
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/ˈæd.ə.kwət/us
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/ˈæd.ə.kwət/
enough or satisfactory for a ...
amount
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/əˈmaʊnt/us
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/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
Examples of adequate amount
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If perennials can fix an adequate amount of carbon to make them viable crops, the question becomes one of harvest index rather than trade-off.
This is that the possession of an adequate amount of land for subsistence is the best single ingredient of rural survival strategies in the area.
It does not provide rations in adequate amount unless there are opportunities for stockpiling.
While that may be factually correct, it is based on the assumption that £3 in 1964 was an adequate amount for expenses.
That is for someone who is earning an adequate amount from his self-employed occupation.
Many of us think that a penny rate would possibly not be an adequate amount.
There are many areas in which there is an adequate amount of housing.
Is that indicative of the fact that an adequate amount of land is available?
This was an adequate amount in the early days, but now even £550 million is inadequate.
On the third point about whether this is an adequate amount, it is difficult to judge future trends.
There would still have been an adequate amount.
Hard though local authorities work to meet that need, they simply do not have an adequate amount of housing.
We shall thus be continuing our policy of replacement, and leaving an adequate amount of tonnage to be built next year.
The association tried to work out the lowest benefit level at which such people could buy an adequate amount of food for the week.
A figure of £700 million out of externally-generated resources is by no measure an adequate amount of capital expenditure to be financed out of revenue.
We ought to make sure at least that these people are given an adequate amount on which to live while their earning capacity is reduced.
The operation of the levy grant system will also stimulate firms to do an adequate amount of training.
It would be a mistake to appoint a large number of people at the beginning without giving them an adequate amount of work to do.
The position was simply that that company, during its operations over 25 years, had saved up an adequate amount of reserves for future development.
That appears to me to be an adequate amount of time.
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