The phrase "amount of dross" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity of waste material or something considered worthless in a particular context.
Example: "The amount of dross produced during the manufacturing process was significantly reduced after implementing new quality control measures."
Alternatives: "quantity of waste" or "level of refuse".
Proof, if proof were needed, that Cillian Murphy's sharp cheekbones can slice through any amount of dross.
The greater threat is the best ones will be lost amid the large amount of dross.
Due to the fact that the RD samples contained more aluminium per gram of dross, it meant that a smaller amount of material would be needed to provide the same amount of dross as the LD sample.
Though this led to a great quantity of dross, many talented young arrangers now rushed into the field and produced an impressive amount of astonishingly good music.
They can sit through any amount of insupportable Hollywood dross or arthouse ramblings without ever being so ill-mannered as to use the b-word, but it's always sex that gets the ostentatious stifled-yawn treatment.
Understandably for a shop whose stock comes from a lot of house clearances, there's a lot of dross, with an almost unimaginable amount of Ja Rule's back catalogue clogging up the crates.
As The World in 2013 mournfully concludes: Some predict a future of fewer booksellers, fewer publishers and vast amounts of self-published dross, easily available on that brand new Kindle.
Some predict a future of fewer booksellers, fewer publishers and vast amounts of self-published dross, easily available on that brand new Kindle.Emily Bobrow: deputy books and arts editor, The Economist.
There has been a fair amount of thoughtful coverage of Chris Brown's alleged assault on Rihanna (as well as a lot of dross), from columns on what to tell the kids to Linda Fairstein's Daily Beast piece on the fierce urgency of get-out-of-that-relationship now.
