The first part stipulates that all states receive a certain quantity regardless of their population or risk status.
"The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you" (The Third Policeman).
But when you're putting together an institution of a certain type of manners and morals, it makes sense to go in for a certain quantity of homogeneity.
She represents "a real human being with a heart, with feelings, with sympathies and with emotions only as a bank-note represents a certain quantity of gold".
When the mineral does not contain much barium, a certain quantity of barium salt is added in order to carry away the radium.
A futures contract is an agreement to deliver or receive a certain quantity of a commodity at an agreed price at some stated time in the future.
Towns typically meet these kinds of obligations by hinging their approval of new developments on the applicants' promises either to bankroll or build a certain quantity of "affordable" housing.
He had already agreed with the Tenerife jewellers that they would purchase a certain quantity from him in return for exclusive deals and, once he had wooed wholesalers in Belgium and India, his business quickly grew.
The classic form of this is the stock warrant, which is an option to buy a certain quantity of the corporation's stock at a stated price within a stated time.
Other games, like Tetris, are built on a sense of mounting difficulty; they conjure it by limiting you to a certain quantity of space, which you must constantly clear of debris.
It is not enough to know that bank X has a certain quantity of Greek debt on its books, nor even how many credit default swaps it is holding.
