"And to do that you need to raise a huge amount of capital."

Each house is required by market and Federal regulations to maintain a certain amount of capital to continue doing business.

But "the amount of new capital required by this industry has gone down dramatically over the past five years."

"He holds a great amount of political capital with Republicans."

There is only a fixed amount of political capital to spend.

It is easy to organize and needs only a small amount of capital.

A great amount of capital is being poured into the industry.

There was a limit to the amount of capital available for investment.

"It seems to me to be a very small amount of capital for what she wants to do."

Whether the amount of available capital will keep growing is a different question.