The phrase "alternative amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a different or substitute quantity or value in a specific context, such as finance or pricing.
Example: "If you choose not to accept the initial offer, we can discuss an alternative amount that may be more suitable for you."
Alternatives: "substitute amount" or "different amount".
Mr. Romney faces a classic dilemma in presidential politics: Going negative is never an appealing option, but the alternative amounts to unilateral disarmament and a much higher likelihood of defeat, especially against a rival like Mr. Gingrich who has little to lose.
That is especially so when the alternative amounts to a complete abandonment of every principle that has made our society worth living in.
We also did not test other types of incentives or the effect of alternative amounts of incentives.
This is confirmed by one alternative measure: the amount of cargo passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt.
The President's Proposal raises the percent of income that is an alternative payment amount from 0.5 to 1.0% in 2014, 1.0 to 2.0% in 2015, and 2.0 to 2.5% for 2016 and subsequent years the same percent of income as in the House bill, which makes the assessment more progressive.
And in fact at least many of the recent proponents of direct realism say very little about what their epistemological alternative really amounts to.
Under all alternatives the amount of forest vegetation decreased but the amount of mature conifer forest increased relative to current conditions.
In both alternatives, the amount of losses is greater for f than for α.
Illumina protocols recommend 10 cycles of PCR when starting with one microgram of input DNA, and 18 cycles when starting with 5 nanograms, but it is difficult to know a priori how to optimize cycle number for alternative sample amounts.
"It ignores available race-neutral alternatives and amounts to a forbidden racial quota," the brief signed by Theodore B. Olson, the solicitor general, said of the undergraduate admissions program.
