sizeable amount

collocation in English

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sizeable
adjective
uk
/ˈsaɪ.zə.bəl/us
/ˈsaɪ.zə.bəl/
large:
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amount
noun[C]
uk
/əˈmaʊnt/us
/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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(Definition ofsizeableandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Its main resources included asizeableamountof rents from herdades, mainly in the surrounding region.
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At the moment, this is asizeableamount.
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I say "only", although that is obviously asizeableamountof money.
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To put it at its lowest, it is something which earns us asizeableamountof our invisible earnings.
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What we are lacking because of the political strife is asizeableamountof private capital being provided for the building of houses to rent.
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This is not asizeableamount, bearing in mind the average earnings of most householders today.
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This figure of £340 million would be a verysizeableamountto put into consumption.
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After all, these contributions are asizeableamountto come out of people's incomes nowadays.
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In anybody's view, asizeableamountof money is involved.
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That is asizeableamount, and it is creating serious trauma.
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That is still asizeableamount, but not as large as the figures that have been suggested.
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The pots of money filled up to provide asizeableamountwith which to tackle our problems.
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The sum of £1 million is still asizeableamount.
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That is asizeableamount—almost double the £35 million that we have given in the past three years.
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Indeed, it is only in the last two or three years that the annual investment figures of the coal industry have reached asizeableamount.
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As 13 million of us now have access to the internet, it is fair to assume that asizeableamountof that money will be spent on-line.
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That is asizeableamountof money.
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The public health department again moved in and insisted on his spending asizeableamountof money to provide baths, showers, wash hand basins, toilets, and so on.
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I am not too happy about that figure, but it is a figure that has been given; so at least they have asizeableamountof it.
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That is asizeableamount.
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