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Example sentences for "fair amount"

  • After a fair amount of proficiency has been acquired in the use of the cleek, iron, and mashie, we have the difficulty of the putting to surmount.

  • Are they quite satisfied that it is not better to have a fair amount of shaft projecting up above the place where they grip when that place is very low down?

  • The light of the urns were now hidden from us, and we were in comparative darkness, though we could see with a fair amount of clearness.

  • I could see the thing with a fair amount of distinctness and forced my brain to take the record of my eyes.

  • Already we were able to see with a fair amount of clearness; we could easily distinguish the forms of those who came to bring us food and water when they were fifteen or twenty feet away.

  • Do you know that I" then there is a parenthesis and some Russian printing which I presume to be Russian and the parenthesis is closed, "speak a fair amount of Russian which I have been studying for many months?

  • Do you know that I speak a fair amount of Russian, which I have been studying for months?

  • The fuel used is too "dead," and needs the addition of some substance containing a fair amount of creosotic matter.

  • Again, although the cart may be clean, it may have to travel some distance on roads carrying a fair amount of motor traffic.

  • A fair amount of blanket crepe is sold in the Singapore market, but it should generally be regarded as re-made rubber--i.

  • I had observed a fair amount of television when the nurse entered to read my vital statistics and administer the nightly shot to my thigh.

  • Nevertheless, I consumed a fair amount of each simply as a reminder that I was licensed to function as any other human, eating and drinking as a matter of course.

  • Since I was naturally an achiever, I received a fair amount of friendly attention through these years.

  • The regulations say that each passenger may bring, free of duty, a fair amount of clothing, according to his condition in life, a statement that has given rise to a great deal of dispute.

  • In Europe the principal resorts of the pedestrian are the mountain regions of Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, and there is a fair amount of the same kind of travel in Norway, Sweden, and the lake and mountain districts of Scotland.

  • These figures are for a fair amount of service, and are liberal enough for most cases.

  • There was a fair amount of vegetable growth.

  • Most of these settlers were from Eastern Canada and the United States, and in nearly all cases were supplied with a fair amount of capital, stock and farm implements.

  • Men not only obtained a fair amount of justice under their care, but a fair amount of freedom even from their carelessness.

  • The A, B, C of thinking was probably learned long before the insect's time, and the bee shows a fair amount of intelligence.

  • It will not be remarkable for the high development or lack of any quality or power; it must have a fair amount of all of them well correlated.

  • A tea-spoonful of blood can carry a fair amount of dissolved solid nutriment like sugar, it can carry at each round but a very little gas like oxygen.

  • Skin thick, tender, adheres considerably to the pulp, contains a fair amount of light purplish pigment, astringent.

  • Berries medium to small, oval to roundish, black, covered with a fair amount of blue bloom, very persistent, not firm.

  • Berries large to medium, slightly oval to roundish, black, covered with a fair amount of blue bloom, persistent.

  • The big man's larder was well stocked, and although Harry King did not appear to be a western man, he was a good camper, and could bake a corn dodger or toss a flapjack with a fair amount of skill.

  • You have now regained a fair amount of strength and have reached an age when you should think seriously of what you are to do in life.

  • It will be found that a fair amount of time given to the study of these old MSS.

  • After having a fair amount of practice in forming letters in this way the student will soon be able to produce them quickly and easily.

  • A fair amount of sketching from nature will go a good way towards preventing this.

  • EYES--The eyes should be rather small and deep set, dark in colour and not too close together; the lower eyelid should droop, so as to show a fair amount of haw.

  • FORE-LEGS--Rather long, well set under the dog, possessing a fair amount of bone.

  • THE FORE-LEGS should be straight and muscular, neither in nor out at elbows, with a fair amount of bone; the forearm somewhat fleshy, the pasterns showing flexibility without weakness.

  • Without a fair amount of both nerve and physical power such gallops should not be attempted at all.

  • The hills which surround the plain of San Salvador are covered with verdure, which keeps its colour and freshness owing to the heavy dews which fall and the absence of dust, while a fair amount of rain can always be depended upon.

  • In the month of May last (1911) Senor don Nicolas Leiva was appointed Consul for Salvador at Liverpool, which port carries on a fair amount of trade with the Republic.

  • Half a century ago Salvador was exporting tobacco to Mexico, and had been doing a fair amount of trade with that country even in the time of the Spanish dominion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fair amount" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cargo ships; ecclesiastical history; fair and; fair average; fair friend; fair knight; fair land; fair price; fair princess; fair rent; fair share; fair size; fair young; fair youth; faire water; fairly large; fairly long; fairy tale; fairy tales; four hundred and fifty; home here; many individuals; not found; said the second mate; votive offerings; what remains