The phrase "amount of its time" is not correct and may cause confusion in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing the quantity or duration of time related to something, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "The project required a significant amount of its time to complete, which affected other deadlines."
Alternatives: "duration of its time" or "quantity of its time".
It spends a disproportionate amount of its time on nuclear energy but interestingly concludes that nuclear energy is likely only to maintain its present market share, not grow rapidly.
From that point onward the group spent an increasing amount of its time playing arrangements of music from idioms not primarily dependent on scored composition, be it Indian raga, Portuguese fado, California surf rock or Mexican techno.
The agency spends the vast amount of its time and resources policing corporations, not governments, although its chairman, Christopher Cox, has expressed concerns lately about inadequate oversight of public finances, including public pension funds, and asked key members of Congress for more power.
His death this week at the age of 87 was a loss that should have drawn much more attention from a press corps that spends an inordinate amount of its time obsessing idiotically over the likes of Tiger Woods and John Edwards.
The security firm Check Point is also spending an increasing amount of its time identifying the growing malware strains that plague smartphones.
The International Energy Agency IEAA), set up by rich countries in the aftermath of the 1970s oil crisis, now finds an increasing amount of its time devoted to the potentially much bigger crisis of climate change.
The humble motor car, especially for city dwellers, is such an under-utilised asset, yet it consumes a disproportionate amount of its owners time and money.
At both E3 and Gamescom, Sony has given a considerable amount of its conference time to indie titles.
He vowed to dedicate about 1 percent of Google's profits, 1 percent of its equity and a significant amount of its employees' time to the effort, which became known as Google.org, or simply DotOrg.
Where Acton differs dramatically from Harvard is in the amount of time its students spend inside that classroom--5 months compared with 18--and its cost, $49 , 500compared with $127,000.
The São Paulo police department reduced the amount of time its officers patrol the streets, and 40percentt of buses stopped running.
