The phrase "amount of deliberation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the extent or degree of careful consideration or thought given to a decision or action.
Example: "The committee took a significant amount of deliberation before reaching a consensus on the new policy."
Alternatives: "degree of consideration" or "level of thoughtfulness."
No amount of deliberation can ever guarantee that you have identified the "right" option.
"This proposal is the beginning, not the end, of a process, and there's going to be a tremendous amount of deliberation before a final product is acted upon," said Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn.
"There's darkness in there!" he says, I think a little affronted, "but there's only a certain amount of deliberation that you can successfully carry off, because the light changes, the weather changes.
It is unclear how much-centralized decision making occurred within the Taliban, the amount of deliberation that took place internally, and the decision-making structure used to support it.
Re "A Benchmark of Progress, Electrical Grid Fails Iraqis" ("What Is Left Behind" series, front page, Aug. 2): Before the United States disengagement from Iraq, some in the administration devoted a fair amount of deliberation over the nature and type of United States government support for the renewal of the Iraqi electricity sector.
Reorganizations take a significant amount of deliberation, internal maneuvering of people and politics, and time.
If you're an expert in your field and if you're judgment isn't clouded by subconscious desires, you might be able to make better decisions without massive amounts of deliberation.
Jeff Merkley, a freshman Democrat from Oregon, said, "That is a phrase that I wince each time I hear it, because the amount of real deliberation, in terms of exchange of ideas, is so limited".
And though I never indulged in substances during my stay, I understand now that no amount of peaceful deliberation or delusional ideation will ever mitigate the revolting brilliance of the human experience.
On the other hand, there is no reason to believe that a procedural approach to consent – limited to the biobanking context and with the correct amount of careful deliberation and transparency – would necessarily be prejudicial to the data subject.
The first seems more organic, while the latter requires a certain amount of intellectual deliberation.
