"the amount of development" is a grammatically correct phrase and is commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the level or extent of progress or advancement in a particular area. Example: "The amount of development in the technology sector has greatly increased in the past decade."
This is likely due to the amount of development time that went into each: Twitter says developers worked on Periscope for a year, whereas Meerkat founder Ben Rubin has said he built Meerkat in only eight weeks.
Santa Monica followed that with citywide down-zoning, and although the City has approved much commercial development since 1981 -- nearly 10 million square feet -- when dealing with private developers negotiations have always focused on balancing the amount of development against what public benefits, often costly, the City can extract.
Modifying the amount of development is certainly one that we can look at".
Infantino also outlined his plans to increase the amount of development funding to member associations.
He said residents in his district were distressed about the amount of development in the park.
Mr. Juves said residents were using the airport as a scapegoat, while their real complaint was about the amount of development that had occurred here.
Moves to improve the way the world works together on development have been aided by an increase in the amount of official development assistance (ODA) that rich countries give to developing nations.
Correction: November 17, 2002, Sunday An article on Nov. 3 about the effect of improved New Jersey Transit service on the downtown areas of several towns misstated the amount of commercial development in Morristown since 1996.
Stephen Doughty, a Labour member on the committee and the MP who lodged the parliamentary question, said: "This would be the first time that the amount of official development assistance spent by departments other than DfID is more than quarter.
The 20percentt limit to the amount of additional development that the market-rate builder can add coincides with the 20percentt bonus that Manhattan builders have historically gotten for setting their buildings behind open plazas, once deemed a desirable public benefit.
We determined if characteristics of the landscape matrix, particularly the amount of urban development surrounding a forest, were better predictors of bird communities than forest width.
