From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha fair size/amount/number/bit/distance etca fair size/amount/number/bit/distance etcespecially British EnglishBIG quite a large size, number etc I’ve still got a fair amount of work left to do. We had travelled a fair way (=quite a long distance) by lunch time.there’s a fair chance (that)/of something (=it is quite likely that something will happen) There’s a fair chance we’ll be coming over to England this summer. → fair
Examples from the Corpus
a fair size/amount/number/bit/distance etc• It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus.• Thanks to the inherently leaky nature of the water industry, there is already a fair amount of information to go on.• That involved a fair amount of travel.• There was a fair amount going on.• You may also be involved in a fair amount of travel.• Scientists must proceed cautiously, moving ahead only with the assent of a fair number of their colleagues.• But a fair number of them went on to greater things.• They'd have a fair bit of tidying up to do before they left. 