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The phrase "a dreadful amount of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a large quantity of something in a negative or undesirable context.
Example: "After the storm, there was a dreadful amount of debris scattered across the streets."
Alternatives: "an excessive amount of" or "a significant amount of".
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Sometimes when he ran, he conjured the voice of British announcers: "He must be in a dreadful amount of pain now, but he must keep pushing".
"It does not seem possible, at least in the near future", he wrote, "to find a way to release these dreadful amounts of energy which is all to the good because the first effect of an explosion of such a dreadful amount of energy would be to smash into smithereens the physicist who had the misfortune to find a way to do it".
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When filing the heaping, dreadful amount of paperwork required to register a U.S. business, every entrepreneur must make a choice: for-profit or non-profit?
Well, what a dreadful set of numbers.
I think it's a dreadful time of life".
The "World" is having a dreadful attack of Rooseveltphobia.
"This is a dreadful piece of science".
It's a shambles, a dreadful state of affairs.
It's been, after all, a dreadful couple of weeks.
"League tables are, however, a dreadful way of measuring success.
He told the BBC: "It's really a dreadful piece of news.
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