Sentence examples for amass up from inspiring English sources

FEMA, for instance, is working to amass up to 300,000 trailer homes for evacuees.

But rather than dealing directly with the public, mutual funds amass up to 90percentt of their money through retail brokerage firms, which, in turn, enjoy "pay to play" revenue-sharing arrangements.

I could, otherwise, easily amass up to 600 or so messages and notes if I don't log on during the weekend.

Prosecutors investigating the pair believe that they and their acolytes may have amassed up to $2 billion, much of it stolen from the state's coffers.

In 2005 Warren featured in the Sunday Times Rich List, which estimated his wealth then as £76m, although other estimates have suggested he amassed up to £300m from crime.

Military analysts estimate that the Russians have amassed up to 40,000 troops close to Ukraine's eastern border in recent days, though a number of reports on Monday suggested that many of the troops had begun a withdrawal.

And when Russia amassed up to 40,000 troops on Ukraine's border, alarm bells must have been ringing at NATO headquarters.

Mr. Bush's potential Democratic rivals, struggling to raise a fraction of the money that the president seems certain to amass, kept up their portrayal of the administration as a tool of the groups that contributed to the campaign.

The ethnographic clothes Culin amassed ended up, along with who knows how many of the fashion designs, in the museum's costume collection, a populist gold mine full of high fashion but also dresses that real middle-class Brooklynites wore when the Brooklyn museum was in its heyday, throughout the early and middle decades of the 20th century.

The head of risk management at one European bank says he laboured for 18 weeks to amass and tot up the thousands of different trading positions that his firm runs clearly not ideal for a bank trading in fast-moving markets.

And other Pfizer drugs, such as blood pressure medication Norvasc and leading antidepressant Zoloft, are also expected to amass high sales; up 13% and 10%, respectively, for the quarter and together bringing in about $1.5 billion for the drug maker.