The phrase "a terrible amount of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a large quantity of something, often with a negative connotation.
Example: "After the storm, there was a terrible amount of debris scattered across the streets."
Alternatives: "an excessive amount of" or "a significant amount of".
"It's problematic now and we complain about it," she said, "and we're undergoing a terrible amount of inconveniences.
Well, John clambered up, and there was a terrible amount of screaming and fighting and thrashing going on in the thick leaves until John shouted down, "Somebody get a gun and shoot up in this tree!" The farmer hesitated.
"If the army is with Musharraf, he can neutralize these groups, but it will take a long time, and a terrible amount of violence in Pakistan first," said one Pakistani with intimate knowledge of the security services.
To my mind this would not be a terrible result, although it would have cost a terrible amount of time and money to get there.
Head of student services Brian Weir said: "I think there's a terrible amount of pressure on young people today to succeed.
Impact: "My husband has been under a terrible amount of stress since I was laid off.
So... you can't say (Sanders' proposal) represents some kind of profligate, free-spending idea that would cost us all terrible amounts of money".
So... you can't say (Sanders' proposal) represents some kind of profligate, free-spending idea that would cost us all terrible amounts of money". Social Security would never have been created if Democrats had taken this position in the 1930s, since it is funded by payroll taxes.
I'm not saying that everybody's going to be a vegetarian or a vegan, but we will be horrified by the terrible amount of suffering that we're inflicting".
They like this terrible measure of progress because it's a terrible measure of progress.
A Supreme Court ruling for plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, the case that threatens Affordable Care Act subsidies in three dozen states, would unleash terrible chaos and create a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the U.S. political system.
