Sentence examples for amount in the first from inspiring English sources

It's not a generous amount in the first place, and divided equally it leaves barely enough for the bottom crust and too much for the top.

Unemployment had grown by a similar amount in the first half of the year, as slews of dot-com start-ups morphed into not-com wind-downs.

Notre Dame lost two fumbles in the game, double its amount in the first eight games combined, but that seemed to be the only way that Boston College could stop the Irish today.

The State Police issued 3,862 new handgun permits in the first six months of this year, for instance, more than double the amount in the first half of 2001.

The bill, pending before the House in Maryland, would allow charges of up to 80 percent of the loan amount in the first year and up to 200 percent of the loan amount in total.

Although the total amount in the first batch of deals signed on Monday was small, less than 14 million renminbi, or $2 million, state media said around 400 Chinese companies had already won approval to conduct renminbi business and predicted that the program would have huge potential.

It was $4.8 billion $2.6 billionn was the amount in the fourth quarter.

That's double the amount in the second quarter of 2011.

Bostjan Nachbar, who averages 4.8 minutes a game, almost doubled that amount in the second quarter alone.

The company said that it would take a write-down of that amount in the fourth quarter but that the write-down would not affect its earnings.

But economists say the main reason for the inflation now is China's foreign exchange reserves, which surged by a record amount in the fourth quarter.