The phrase "a wrong amount of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an incorrect quantity or measurement of something.
Example: "The recipe called for a wrong amount of sugar, which affected the taste of the cake."
Alternatives: "an incorrect amount of" or "a miscalculated amount of".
Mental illnesses were believed to result from a "chemical imbalance" — the wrong amount of this or that neurotransmitter in certain synapses.
Mental illnesses were believed to result from a "chemical imbalance"—the wrong amount of this or that neurotransmitter in certain synapses.
There are serious concerns that a toxic combination of the wrong amount of money being transferred from primary care trusts, and the new budget holders being locked into large, long-term contracts on everything from dental health promotion to health checks, means that once the money for statutory services is taken out local priorities such as tackling child obesity could suffer.
No injuries were reported, but inaccurate test readings may lead a person with diabetes to inject the wrong amount of insulin, causing harm or death.
"Every day, smaller wrongs happen to people trying to save their homes: being charged the wrong amount of money, being wrongly denied a loan modification, being asked to hand over documents four or five times," said Ira Rheingold, executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates.
The experiment turned out to be with the wrong amount of ingredients, but it produced a blob of wobbly jelly that Rasmussen noticed contracted and expanded like muscles when she applied an electrical current.
Authorities in 2005 seized more than 6,000 of the Colleague pumps thought to have a defect that could cause them to shut down or deliver the wrong amount of medication.
They last just the wrong amount of time — they don't have the compressed energy of a short story, and they're not expansive and open-ended, like a regular series or a good novel.
Instead, I had the wrong amount of nutrients and zero guidance and ended up feeling terrible.
No amount of hard graft or good intentions can make up for the wrong amount of the right people.
A failed monsoon can mean that the rain hasn't come, or that it has come in the wrong place for the wrong amount of time.
