The phrase "amount contained in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the quantity or volume of something that is held within a specific container or context.
Example: "The amount contained in the bottle is sufficient for the entire recipe."
Alternatives: "quantity included in" or "volume held in".
Half an ounce, the amount contained in one ounce of hundred-proof whiskey, will yield about a hundred calories.
That is the equivalent of one ounce of hundred-proof whiskey, or somewhat less than the amount contained in an ordinary highball.
The amount contained in the radiation field (most of which is in the cosmic microwave background) contributes negligibly to the total at present.
National Science Foundation: If the president gets his way, NSF would receive an 8.5% increase, to $7.045 billion, over the amount contained in the fiscal year 2009 omnibus bill that the House approved yesterday.
The known amount of 177Lu contained in the flask was calculated with a dose calibrator by measuring the difference between the amount contained in the dispensing syringe before and after it was added to the flask.
Because of the annealing, the overall Ge amount contained in the SiGeO film slightly decreases from 3.0 × 1017 cm-2 (in the as-deposited sample) to 2.6 × 1017 cm-2 (800°C-annealed sample) due to the Ge out-diffusion through the surface, as already evidenced in the literature [20].
Mr. Clinton has also objected to the amounts contained in the bill for programs like hiring more police officers, setting aside more land for national monuments and contributing to United Nations peacekeeping efforts.
One law enforcement official said the investigation had found that the group received reimbursement for significantly more than $35 million, but could prove only the amounts contained in the indictment.
In the present study, the high-STA test fat contained 43.9% of fatty acids as STA, which is similar to amounts contained in fats that are naturally rich in STA, such as sheanut oil (39%) and cocoa butter (34%).
Thanks to the large amount of signal contained in genome-wide sequence alignments, phylogenomic analyses are converging towards highly supported trees.
That's about the same amount as contained in all the dead phytoplankton and feces that sink each year in the same place.
