The phrase "amount of kids" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct term is "number of kids," as "amount" is used for uncountable nouns, while "number" is used for countable nouns like "kids."
Example: "The number of kids in the class has increased this year."
Alternatives: "count of kids" or "total of kids."
I went down to my old cycling club and the amount of kids down there was absolutely amazing - 'Can I do a 500m like you?'".
Suprising amount of kids with parents but that did not hinder a ferile audience though the pogoing didn't seem as high as it does sometimes.
"There are a fair amount of kids in a classroom who think that bullies are cool," said Dr. Rodkin, "especially when they're attractive and athletic".
"I think they need to, I think they've got a responsibility to just based on the amount of kids that are on Facebook now," he said.
In addition, there was a fair amount of kids throwing rocks, as well as the continuing threat of low-level terrorism, mainly from organisations based abroad; the Israelis conflated the autochthonous protest movement with the terrorism and responded brutally, and the intifada quickly lost its non-violent character.
"This is the first time in a long time this school has actually got a reasonable amount of kids in the classrooms," said Torrence Shorter, a parent who sends four children ages 8 to 14 to Martin A. Ryerson Elementary School, which is on the closing list.
And a lot of these women have ungodly amounts of kids.
A recent wave of research suggests that parents need to be thoughtful about three cultural changes that are affecting our children: the amount of time kids spend in front of screens (perhaps more than we all realized), the amount of physical activity kids get (too little), and the amount of unstructured time offered them (not much).
When you make rules limiting the amount of junk kids can eat, their weight problems lessen.
Alarmed, apparently, by the amount of time kids of today are spending staring at screens, and as an antidote to the commercialised lists of battery-draining top 10s produced on an annual basis by the likes of Hamleys and DreamToys, Project Wild Thing have a suggestion.
Gladwell cites research demonstrating that academic performance gaps between groups of students is very much tied to the amount of time kids spend being educated.
