Sentence examples for a substantial amount and from inspiring English sources

Unicef contributed a substantial amount, and the rest was raised from foundations and private donors by Ms. Ensler's advocacy group, V-Day.

"There's a substantial amount, and an increasing amount of asbestos litigation, which is not what people expected," said Barry R. Ostrager, a lawyer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, noting how experts once predicted that the number of claims would decline over time.

Re-compounding, particularly, when it is generated at a substantial amount and at low variation in composition, is the ultimate recycling strategy.

It was shown that in the practical range of superficial gas velocity and catalyst feed rate, the ratio of produced polymer in the bubble phase to the total production rate is roughly between10%and13%13%, which is a substantial amount and cannot be ignored.

He got Bain and other initial owners who had removed excessive amounts of money from the firm to return a substantial amount, and persuaded creditors, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to accept less than full payment.

"The BSF money would have been spent almost entirely on upgrading some of the servers and a substantial amount of software and hardware for students and staff, such as handheld technologies," says head Ian Andain.

It's not rocket science, but it does take a good amount of elbow grease up front and a substantial amount of prep and time.

He owns a substantial amount in Citigroup and News Corp and has made investments in many technology conglomerates before this deal, including in our parent company AOL.

The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is one of the most comprehensively studied eukaryotic organisms and a substantial amount of biochemical and genetic data has been accumulated.

However, the spread of scores was extensive (see Figure  3), and represents a substantial amount of both under-and over-reporting at the individual level.

A toxicology report found the designer had taken a "substantial" amount of cocaine and sleeping pills and also a smaller amount of tranquillisers before killing himself.