"setting the amount of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as part of a sentence when you are talking about determining or establishing an amount of something. For example, "The city council is responsible for setting the amount of taxes paid by citizens."
Labour is already committed to increasing devolution of powers over housing, transport and skills to English cities and regions but is now setting the amount of cash it would transfer from Whitehall to £30 billion over the course of five years.
The best of the bunch also allow users to fine-tune this interaction, such as by setting the amount of time that location can be tracked.
Additionally, the analyzer component creates twelve job configurations setting the amount of Cloud nodes to be allocated from one to twelve.
Deviation of this model from pure equilibrium is minimised by considering char and tar, pyrolysis, heat loss in pyrolysis, particles leaving the gasifier and setting the amount of CH4 produced.
The analyzer component generates eight different job configurations on the basis of the cluster resource descriptor setting the amount of compute nodes for this job between one and eight nodes.
Now, that growing list of users can not only compose an email and attach a mess of hefty files via YouSendIt but also verify when a file has been downloaded, ensure that only the intended recipient can download a particular file, and set advanced security options (like setting the amount of time a file is available for download or how many times it can be downloaded.
Only after that would the jury set the amount of any damages.
The compact sets the amount of water that can be diverted, not consumed.
Nor does it set the amount of sugar per serving, as it does for fats and proteins.
The Treasury secretary would set the amount of the penalties, at "the minimum practicable amount that can accomplish the goal" of expanding coverage.
A section of the Properties box allows you to set the amount of time that the computer must be idle before it disconnects from its dial-up connection.
