Below you will find example sentences with "small amounts". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Small Amounts in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: amounts
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 22.9 words

Words in this phrase

small amounts

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • small can mean: Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. Common word
  • amounts can mean: plural of amount Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

adults or small amounts by children 1× cuts and small amounts of damage 1× eggs and small amounts of red 1× encounters with small amounts of water 1× enjoying even small amounts of the 1× even these small amounts of runoff 1× from very small amounts of starting 1× gravitational potential small amounts of thrust 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a small but 1× but the drug 1× eating flexitarian means 1× even these small 1× for maximum savings 1× hazzard created a 1×

Common sentence endings:

a short period 1× amounts of juices 1× and burning diarrhea 1× be very small 1× cause of death 1× damage to buildings 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

used 3× large 3× water 3× diet 2× foods 2× yarns 2× different 2× potential 2× thrust 2× period 2× give 2× dna 2×

Related phrases

small businesses small business large amounts small boats small scale relatively small higher amounts small towns small amount small town

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around amounts:

large amounts 20× higher amounts 11× rainfall amounts 8× high amounts 7× huge amounts 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

small amount slow start slow pace slow motion slow down slow cooker

Just after it in the phrase index:

small blind small boats small business small businesses small cap small craft

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

small businesses small business small boats small scale small towns small amount

Same ending:

large amounts higher amounts rainfall amounts high amounts huge amounts enormous amounts

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "small amounts" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 22.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as adults or small amounts by children, cuts and small amounts of damage, used, large and water stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with small businesses, small business, large amounts, large amounts, higher amounts and rainfall amounts, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with small amounts

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Interestingly, enjoying even small amounts of the can “make a difference”. (11 words)

Let them drink small amounts of cool water or lick ice cubes. (12 words)

In the United States, Oregon decriminalized small amounts of all drugs in 2020. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

Never mind that calamus root has been used as a herb in Chinese and Indian cultures for centuries, or that small amounts of it have been consumed by Amer Picon–sipping Europeans for generations with zero reported health effects. (39 words)

A small but affluent middle class can afford to shop at the former, while the large impoverished rural community resorts to buying small amounts of daily essentials from colmados (small stores that often double as bars). (36 words)

They cause burning or stinging pain to the skin and, if ingested in large amounts by adults or small amounts by children, can produce nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and burning diarrhea. (31 words)

Example sentences (20)

One popular brand includes 10% total strontium chloride hexahydrate by weight. citation Small amounts are used in the refining of zinc to remove small amounts of lead impurities.

Small amounts of boron occur widely in the diet, and the amounts needed in the diet would, by extension from rodent studies, be very small.

Eating flexitarian means choosing mostly plant-based foods, with moderate amounts of fish, poultry, dairy and eggs, and small amounts of red meat.

Heathered yarns contain small amounts of fibre of different colours, while tweed yarns may have greater amounts of different colored fibres.

Outside a gravitational potential small amounts of thrust applied over a long period will give the same effect as large amounts of thrust over a short period.

PCR supplies these techniques with high amounts of pure DNA, enabling analysis of DNA samples even from very small amounts of starting material.

They cause burning or stinging pain to the skin and, if ingested in large amounts by adults or small amounts by children, can produce nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and burning diarrhea.

A small but affluent middle class can afford to shop at the former, while the large impoverished rural community resorts to buying small amounts of daily essentials from colmados (small stores that often double as bars).

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It lets them survive small encounters with small amounts of water, but not much else.

But the drug was present in such small amounts that the county medical examiner listed “combined effects of ethanol and fentanyl” as the cause of death.

Even these small amounts of runoff water from household use can be used to grow gardens.

For maximum savings, I recommend utilizing the bulk foods section of your grocery store to purchase small amounts of some more expensive ingredients.

Hazzard created a sanitarium called in Olalla, Washington, where she "treated" patients via fasting, giving them only small amounts of juices.

He warned of potential disruption to ferry services across the Irish Sea, bridge closures, power cuts and “small amounts” of damage to buildings.

In “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” demigods drink or eat small amounts of these substances, which give them strength and power.

Interestingly, enjoying even small amounts of the can “make a difference”.

In the United States, Oregon decriminalized small amounts of all drugs in 2020.

Let them drink small amounts of cool water or lick ice cubes.

Never mind that calamus root has been used as a herb in Chinese and Indian cultures for centuries, or that small amounts of it have been consumed by Amer Picon–sipping Europeans for generations with zero reported health effects.

New legislation in B.C. decriminalized personal possession of small amounts of illicit substances for people aged 18 years and older this year.

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