The phrase "amount of the preliminary" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a quantity related to a preliminary stage or assessment, but it lacks clarity and specificity.
Example: "The amount of the preliminary data collected was insufficient for a thorough analysis."
Alternatives: "quantity of the preliminary" or "total of the preliminary".
Mr. Mifsud said three months is the usual amount of time between the preliminary agreement and closing.
This review required a substantial amount of preliminary work to understand the terminology used to describe diagrams and this data collection approach across different disciplines and fields.
In a brief statement, Bell Canada said that the accounting firm KPMG found in a preliminary analysis that "the amount of the indebtedness" involved in financing the deal, about $30 billion, left it unable to conclude whether the privatized company would be solvent.
He said a large amount of preliminary work had already been completed, including the collation of many documents from government departments and the security and intelligence agencies, which it would draw together in a report.
A large amount of preliminary work on anonymisation methodologies was undertaken to create the SAIL Databank system, 17 18 and the SAIL Databank has the required ethical permissions and processes in place to analyse anonymised data.
But no amount of preliminary research can fully prepare a foreign cyber attacker for the workings of American small-city governance.
We thank the team from Sheffield Hallam University for a considerable amount of preliminary work devoted to a framework of GPs' competences in HP&DP.
More plausibly, the truth value of tested hypotheses could differ (if indeed it does differ) because of two sub-factors: Scientists in softer sciences might chose their hypotheses based on a greater amount of personal observations, preliminary results, and pure and simple intuition that precede a "formal", published "test" of the hypothesis.
However, certain theoretical and empirical connections remain ambiguous when researching determinants and therefore a significant amount of preliminary conclusions cannot be taken as a political or policy guide.
See (especially), §§132-135 of the Preliminary Discourse.
