The phrase "about the amount of something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing or inquiring about a specific quantity or extent of an item or concept.
Example: "We need to gather more information about the amount of funding required for the project."
Alternatives: "regarding the quantity of something" or "concerning the level of something".
"He's very good at capturing a mood - that's what I'm impressed with, and what I identify with, but it's the way he works: he strips things down a lot, simplifies things, he's very smart about the organisation of a song, not in the traditional sense, with a middle eight and whatever, but about the amount of time something has been playing.
Doing something about the amount of gasoline Americans use is essential to defusing future oil shocks.
Can Cameron do something about the amount of paperwork doctors have to deal with, he asks, pointing out that he often works Saturdays and Sundays to get through it all.
It says something about the amount of heart that has gone into this project". In an indication of the weight of expectation around this vaccine, still known only as RTS,S, the results were announced at a malaria forum in Seattle called by Bill and Melinda Gates, attended by the World Health Organisation director general, Margaret Chan, and the UK development secretary, Andrew Mitchell.
There's something about the amount of effort and skill that it has taken to create it that results in such a focused moment of magic.
What about the idea there's something aberrational about the amount of money the Kochs are pouring into politics?
Gallardo has now found several signs that indeed there is something unusual about the amount of DNA carried by this rodent.
There's something great about the amount of attention that was paid to outfits.
"There's something cool about the amount of life you see just in showing your meals, these hints of intriguing and exciting things happening out beyond the edges of the plate".
There is something touchingly absurd about the amount of store people set by telling children things in schools – as if, when you want to alter behaviour, you simply insert a lesson and make it so.
Williams left Tokyo with concerns about the amount of control Softbank's Vision Fund wanted but optimistic they could work something out.
