"poor amount" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a small or insufficient quantity or number of something. Example: The charity event raised a poor amount of money, barely enough to cover the cost of organizing it.
In fact, they have only been let down by the poor amount of tablet-optimised software for Android.
In the last years a very poor amount of works was carried out on the behavior of drilled compressive members.
Application of the non-invasive tVNS, tDCS, rTMS, TENS and tSNS in chronic headaches are not yet evidence based, given the poor amount of controlled data.
Entrepreneurial structures are very often specialized in a given sector of activity, particularly through their small size and poor amount of resources.
However, although buckling of glass panels has been quite well studied, a very poor amount of research has been addressed to glass columns, which by contrast represent the most interesting case due to their direct application in buildings.
Supersaturation of more than 1.75 led to precipitations of barite in the pipes and at the inlet of the sample while supersaturation from 1 to 1.75 led to poor amounts of barite precipitation, which were not detected by the analytical methods used.
A piss-poor amount by any standards.
The association between P-PUFA and Ery-Hg was much stronger than the association between Ery-Hg and the self-reported variables total, fat, and lean fish intake in accordance with previous studies (Custodio et al. 2004; Hallgren et al. 2001), which probably reflects the fact that the number of fish meals reported is a poor measure of the amount of fish consumed.
This is likely to be due to the adverse effects of the nutritionally insufficient VLCDs that were popular in the 1970s, which resulted in a number of deaths due to vitamin and mineral deficiencies and consumption of poor quality or inadequate amounts of protein.
But with politics, indifference and corruption conspiring to limit the number of those identified as poor, the amount of food being bought from ration shops dropped significantly and stockpiles soared.
It fails to notice that the 1996 welfare reform, which is linked to extra training, transport and other services for the jobless poor, does amount to a new government initiative to do something about underclass misery.
