The amount of time lost doubles for every mistake (one minute, two minutes, four, and finally eight).

"The total amount of groundwater lost between 1900 and 2008 was estimated at 4,500 km3-enough to raise global sea level by about 12.6 mm."

The amount of energy lost increases with the area inside the loop of current.

We need to measure the amount of information lost between a master recording and an MP3.

The experts say that nobody knows for sure, but the annual amount lost to fraud by older Americans must be in the billions.

The amount of yards gained or lost during a play, game, season, or career.

That figure is $31 billion more than the amount lost because of illnesses in people who do not have depression.

In addition, those amounts lost to the regular budget would have to be made up by other sources of taxation.

In fact, even when special conditions were used to create temperatures well above that of boiling water, the amount lost increased only slightly.

While no one knows the exact amount lost every year, it is probably not insubstantial.