The phrase "amount of crying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to quantify or describe the extent of crying in a particular context, such as emotional situations or reactions.
Example: "After watching the sad movie, I was surprised by the amount of crying I did."
Alternatives: "level of crying" or "degree of crying".
(Maybe the same amount of crying, though).
Selasi doesn't dwell on Fola's grief, which is something of a relief given the amount of crying the major characters do over the course of the novel.
The analysis, published last week in The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, concludes that sugar is an effective anesthetic in reducing the amount of crying time.
During a break in testimony, a lawyer for the two friends objected to the woman's amount of crying and asked the judge to order her to not cry.
It is indicative of the festival's open, non-dogmatic approach to programming that the gamelan ensemble got perhaps the weekend's most rapturous response (including a fair amount of crying).
She refuses them playdates and sleepovers and TV and video games, and she demands unstinting obedience and devotion to family, all of which leads, unsurprisingly, to no small amount of crying, screaming and general tension.
Parenting style may also affect the amount of fussy crying (crying that can be soothed) as well as colicky crying (crying that is unsoothable).
Comparison of approaches revealed that proximal care parents had infants with less fussy crying but the same amount of colicky crying as the more structured approach.
Children that are allowed to learn how to become independent sleepers and experience the byproduct of a finite amount of protest crying cannot be compared to the infinite crying of children who are neglected throughout the day and night.
But episodes of inconsolable crying occurred in all three of the groups, and there were no significant differences in the amount of "colicky crying" at five weeks of age.
First, the amount of Cry found in maize pollen varies from strain to strain; Dr Losey may have been unlucky in his original choice, and picked a particularly toxic one.
