Sentence examples for amount enough from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "amount enough" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically intended to convey sufficiency but is not a commonly accepted expression.
Example: "We need to ensure that we have an amount enough to cover all expenses."
Alternatives: "sufficient amount" or "adequate amount".

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"The developer," he said, "has just paid a token amount, enough for rice, since January".

That is brought to life in the campaign by calling the amount enough plastic "to cover all of Manhattan" or "to fill over 200 garbage trucks".

Those two sentences contain a huge amount, enough for other novelists to hang entire novels upon, but there is a lightness of touch also.

Kitsap pays its players a small amount enough to attract talent but not enough to make a great living — making it one of a few teams in the nationwide league that (openly) pays its players.

Quite possibly, profits will go up by a fair (but not spectacular) amount, enough to drive share prices to even sillier levels before reality dawns on investors.The rise has not been confined to America.

Let's be honest: in a city like Mumbai, that's a phenomenal amount, enough to sustain a backpacker for a month or one of the city's seven million slum-dwellers for a year.

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However, microalgae need these macronutrients in low concentrations and they were available in amounts enough to induce the Botryococcus sp. growth.

A "healthy amount" means enough distraction to engage your attention and emotions but not enough that you get hyper or overexcited and cannot settle down before bed.

Democratic Party leaders said they expected to spend half that amount -- enough, they asserted, to match what they described as a less experienced and less efficient Republican operation.

He gave them a meagre amount, just enough to add to their thirst.

That amount is enough to run the commercials for about a week.

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