12 sentences with “amount”

A century is a very long amount of time.

The farmer harvested a large amount of vegetables in his garden.

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the amount of information we have available on the Internet.

A diuretic is a type of drug used to increase the amount of water eliminated from the body.

A calorie is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius.

The state made great efforts to increase both agricultural productivity and the amount of cultivated land, especially in Mesopotamia.

The amount of yeast depends on the time you want to let the dough ferment -five hours is usual-, as well as the temperature and humidity.

At the same time, the vast amount of wealth captured in military campaigns was often siphoned off by the elites, who found ways to seize large portions of land and plunder with each campaign.

As iconic as hieroglyphic writing, which is still famous for the large amount of it that survived carved in stone in tombs and palaces, was the creation of monumental architecture by the Egyptian state, first exemplified by the pyramids.

So Tiberius Gracchus managed to pass a bill through the Centenary Assembly that would limit the amount of land a single man could own, distributing the excess to the poor. The Senate was horrified and fought bitterly to reverse the bill.

An important political breakthrough came around 350 BC, when the Romans enacted a law limiting the amount of land that could be given to a single citizen after a victory, ensuring a more equitable distribution of land to plebeian soldiers.

The enormous amount of energy expended in the construction of the pyramids is therefore staggering; only the incredible bounty of the Nile and its crops enabled the pyramids to be built by providing the calories consumed by the workers and draught animals, the wealth used to employ the supporting bureaucracy and the size of the population that sustained the entire enterprise.