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The phrase "amount of crimes" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct term would be "number of crimes" since "number" is used for countable nouns like "crimes."
Example: "The number of crimes reported in the city has increased over the past year."
Alternatives: "total of crimes" or "count of crimes."
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Nick Antjoule from Galop, the anti-violence charity, highlighted the amount of "crimes [which] remains hidden".
"After seven years, can you imagine the amount of crimes that we collected?" Del Ponte told VICE News at the commission's headquarters in Geneva.
"I begin to wonder if we've earned our abysmal reputation through the amount of crimes that happen here or through the media's portrayal of the university," she wrote.
Speaking to host Fred Dicker on Albany radio station WGDJ, Tenney said she feared "a lot of these legal gun owners are going to be targeted now," even though "in their demographic, they have the least amount of crimes than virtually any other demographic". Feb. 22, 2018, 7 29 a.m.
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"There was a tremendous amount of crime.
Young men are responsible for a significant amount of crime.
"A huge amount of money is involved, so a huge amount of crime is taking place".
But it does also makes one wonder at the amount of crime drama on television.
"There is simply no correlation between the amount of crime and economic conditions.
If everyone did their part, maybe we could all reduce the amount of crime, violence, prejudice, and suffering.
But police officials acknowledged that on a square-foot basis, a disproportionate amount of crime occurs within them.
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