The phrase "amounts of staff" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct term would be "number of staff" as "amount" is typically used for uncountable nouns.
Example: "The number of staff required for the project has increased significantly this year."
Alternatives: "number of employees" or "staff count".
It requires huge amounts of staff time and diplomacy as a school works, sometimes over a period of years, with parents, social services, police, specialist education services and courts.
Similarly Roger Tetstall, chief executive of Test Valley, told CLG that "the requirement to publish 'items of spend over £500' will result in significant amounts of staff time being wasted on dealing with frivolous, vexatious and idiosyncratic enquiries".
I have observed far too many boards that discuss cultivating donors, finding new prospects, writing thank you notes, etc. without ever asking for funds and others that will get excited about a very modest marketing activity that takes inordinate amounts of staff attention that leaves no time for actually using the event to cultivate interest in the organization.
"It obviously takes a significant amount of staff, and there's just no other way to get around".
"The surveillance systems kind of keep going in a limited way, but there certainly isn't the same amount of staff that usually work on them.
The difference, he said, is that "we have the support of the City Council and have dedicated an appropriate amount of staff resources to get the job done".
The Amazon partnership would also require a significant amount of staff attention, these executives said, to ensure that Amazon maintained the retailers' customer service standards.
At some point, the amount of staff and available resources plays a vital role in being capable to fit their needs.
Mrs. Carter-Betts and other teachers credit not only the reading method but also the enormous amount of staff training and supervision that Success for All provides.
CREF's campaign reportedly involved total out-of-pocket expenses of less than $10,000 plus a modest amount of staff time and resources.
