The phrase "amount instead of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing quantities or values, indicating a preference for one quantity over another.
Example: "I would prefer to receive a cash amount instead of a gift card for my birthday."
Alternatives: "quantity rather than" or "sum in place of".
In many cases, banks were happy to get that smaller amount instead of taking ownership of depreciating farmland.
This is made worse by an odd pricing system, under which firms charge a fixed amount, instead of billing their customers by the hour.
He and the other musicians were hamstrung by having to ask for donations (twenty-five dollars was the suggested amount) instead of charging admission; charging a fixed ticket price requires another level of city permitting, and it didn't seem worth it.
This can be seen, for example, when a student can count on from a given number by a given amount instead of needing to reestablish the meaning of the first number by counting from 1 (counting all) each time.
Should he have sold for that set amount, instead of taking a small royalty in perpetuity?
Moreover, when we measured up and down-regulation of proteins in terms of protein amount instead of number of proteins, a balance in up and down-regulation was also observed.
This model has been useful in understanding electromagnetic properties, including the fact that any internal magnetic flux in superconductors exists only in discrete amounts (instead of in a continuous spectrum of values), an effect called the quantization of magnetic flux.
In particular, six categories of ways of understanding emerged from the data as having been shared by a substantial portion of the students in this study: (1) covariation, (2) invoking time, (3) other symbols as constants, (4) other symbols as implicit functions, (5) implicit differentiation, and (6) output values as amounts instead of rates of change.
Obviously, they aren't very good at knowing what they want, amateurly opting to use dollar amounts instead of weight or asking, "How much do I need for five people?" In that case, I'm like, "I don't know, I can do a half-gram of molly in a night, but that doesn't mean you should".
In future, most advisers are likely to charge a "fee" of 0.5% on the amount invested instead of a commission.
The suit contends that the banks reordered transactions to pay the largest amounts first — instead of in the order in which they actually occurred — so that overdraft fees piled up more quickly than they otherwise would have.
