The phrase "amount of clear" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a quantity of something that is clear, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The amount of clear liquid in the container was insufficient for the experiment."
Alternatives: "quantity of clarity" or "level of transparency".
As old-growth forests disappear and harvested trees become smaller, so does the amount of clear wood away from the perimeter.
This is of a piece with Aickman's belief that "[i]n the right hands, ghosts can stand a surprising amount of clear, strong light": in fact some of the most troubling scenes in his fiction – a naked man peering silently over a wall, a woman ascending stairs, her face turned to the wall – occur in daylight.
The beach sand contained a large amount of clear quartz grains.
We found no relationship between local factors and moth richness, abundance and diversity but the amount of clear felling in the surrounding landscape had a strongly negative correlation.
On speculum examination, there was no blood in the vaginal vault, and there was a small amount of clear discharge from the cervical os.
Off it, the Dark Blues fans were able to count on one finger the amount of clear chances they had created, and boos rang out when referee Craig Charleston blew the half-time whistle.
The amount of clearing done by landowners is regulated and monitored, and those who overclear must replant the area with native plants that are growing nearby.
Fast-food nation was invented in the eighteen-thirties, and Captain Hall's puzzled observation that in America the word "improvement" seemed to mean "an augmentation in the number of houses and people and above all in the amount of cleared land" has not lost any of its validity with the passing of a hundred and seventy-odd years.
Patients in the Stable group showed no change in the amount of clearing, and patients who Worsened showed negative change, or decrease in the amount of clearing.
Improvement ("Improved") was defined as a positive change in the amount of clearing from baseline to end of study.
The amount of clearing was determined by multiplying the number of infected segments by 12.5% and subtracting that percentage from 100%.
