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Example sentences for "certain amount"

  • I allow a certain amount of latitude to my guests, Professor," he said with marked dignity, "but for a man of your age and position you go too far.

  • I don't care whether he does or not," cried Lucy, who had a fine color and a certain amount of fire in her eyes.

  • Random is a soldier and a baronet; handsome and agreeable, with a certain amount of talent.

  • He seems to think that a certain amount of shooting ought to be done.

  • In all this there had been a certain amount of disappointment for Silverbridge; but on that evening, before dinner in Brook Street, he received compensation.

  • Nidderdale ate and drank too much, and refused to be driven beyond a certain amount of labour, but was in other respects obedient and knew what he was about.

  • Lord Popplecourt was a young man possessed of a certain amount of ingenuity.

  • So the art is still practised in spite of a certain amount of risk.

  • Although a certain amount of repetition is inevitable in a canvas so considerable and so full of detail as a complete picture of French society in the nineteenth century, it is needless to repeat the description of Mme.

  • There may be, and to us on the European side of the Atlantic there will be, a certain amount of absurdity in the Transatlantic idea that all knowledge is knowledge, and that it should be imparted if it be not knowledge of evil.

  • I would ask any such lady or gentleman whether he or she does not feel a certain amount of commiseration for the rudeness of the town-bred artisan who walks about with his hands in his pockets as though he recognized a superior in no one?

  • But it still exists with sufficient force to be urged as an excuse; and while it does exist it seems almost needless to show that a certain amount of fraud has been used by a certain party in a revolution.

  • But Jones's block remains, and gives to the city in its aggregate a certain amount of wealth.

  • When this has been done--when he has thus given a pledge of his intentions by depositing on the land the value of a certain amount of labor, he cannot be removed.

  • Even throw in goodness, a certain amount of altruism, gentleness, warm interest in unfortunate humanity--is the situation much improved?

  • Of course I should want a certain amount of expression," I rejoined.

  • This little creature had had a certain amount of education and could play the piano and talk English.

  • There's a certain amount of friction between the Khye-Kheens and the Malo'ts just now.

  • Still the beast had a certain amount of professional feeling left.

  • If he's hurt your vanity, I should say that you've done a certain amount of damage to his heart.

  • Given a week of warm weather, two stately promenades per diem, a heavy mutton and rice meal in the middle of the day, a certain amount of nagging from the teachers, and a few other things, some amazing effects develop.

  • There's a certain amount of wisdom in that view.

  • She went on: "You have internally a certain amount of electricity, which has been increased recently by the remedies prescribed for you by Casimir.

  • Besides, something of her history was known, and she was of a type to incite a certain amount of interest amongst these discerning ones.

  • What had really made her angry, she began to perceive, was the realization of a certain amount of truth in her sister's intimation concerning Ditmar.

  • The human organism is capable of liberating and manifesting daily a limited quantity of vital force, just as a certain amount of capital in the bank will yield a specified sum of interest in a given time.

  • I must know what is the foul speech that I am liable to be the victim of," said Bulstrode, a certain amount of anger beginning to mingle with his humiliation before this quiet man who renounced his benefits.

  • And now I hope you will not shrink from incurring a certain amount of jealousy and dislike from your professional brethren by presenting yourself as a reformer.

  • Of course we can't make other people a present of experience; they have to spin their own webs; but I think one can do a certain amount in seeing that they have experience.

  • It would be understood that you should live here a certain amount--I don't believe in non-resident landlords.

  • Even so quiet a thing as a walk was not unattended by a certain amount of ceremonial.

  • After a moment, it seemed to Beautrelet that the man was looking at him with a certain amount of attention, as though he knew him or, at least, was trying to recognize him.

  • The wedding day was awaited with a certain amount of anxiety.

  • But, given an enemy endowed with a certain amount of cunning, the facts are those which he happens to have selected.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    additional proof; certain death; certain diseases; certain gentleman; certain kind; certain length; certain natural; certain occasion; certain persons; certain phases; certain pleasure; certain portions; certain price; certain provisions; certain races; certain resemblance; certain school; certain temperature; certain things; certain type; certainly not; civil authority; galvanic electricity; hard road; only what; sedimentary rock