Sentence examples for amounts larger than from inspiring English sources

"The housing market is clearly broken when house prices are rising by amounts larger than the entire salary of a nurse, teacher or firefighter.

But with fortification — the systemic addition of nutrients, chiefly vitamins, to the food supply — and no shortage of food, the focus changed to whether vitamins and minerals in amounts larger than we need might protect us against conditions like heart disease and cancer.

The law also makes possession of amounts larger than 25 grams, or any public use or display of the substance, or the handing of a marijuana cigarette to another person a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to three months in jail or a $500 fine.

Residents do not know the true cost of their city government, and elected officials are able to spend amounts larger than the city's revenues.

In addition, the single computer running R runs out of memory when data amounts larger than or equal to 5 years are used.

"A gentleman's deal" -- may be worth about as much as the paper it is "not" written upon -- with an oral, spoken contract, and a handshake -- also is not enforceable for amounts larger than a few thousand dollars and only for the amount that can be enforced in lower, justice of the peace or municipal types of courts, depending on the laws in your area.

The average daily flux during 2004 2007 was 71 kg C ha−1 yr−1 (392 Mt C d−1), an amount larger than measured in most northern temperate and boreal rivers.

Last year alone, companies spent $200 billion developing new energy projects worldwide, according to the study by the consulting firms John S. Herold Inc. and Harrison Lovegrove — an amount larger than the economies of 147 countries.

Since then, Japan has been battling a banking crisis caused by a plunge in the property market that led to bad and doubtful debt of more than $600 billion, an amount larger than the size of the entire Chinese economy.

Backing up that message of size and scale, Pankaj Patel, Cisco's chief development officer, noted that Cisco spent $5.5 billion on research and development in 2012, "an amount larger than the revenue of some of our competitors".

PAGE B1 Business EXELON VOWS TO CUT EMISSIONS, And Hopes to Shape Debate In a bid to shape the debate on carbon dioxide rules, Exelon, the electric company based in Chicago, said it will promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by an amount larger than its total emissions in 2008.