Sentence examples for amount approaching from inspiring English sources

As it happens, allowing the top-end Bush tax cuts to expire would reduce the deficit over 10 years by $678 billion, an amount approaching the $787 billion figure, according to Mr. Obama's budget.

The News Corporation and its political action committee, News America Holdings, have given donations over the years to both Democratic and Republican candidates and causes, but never in the amount approaching the June donation, records show.

Dillman provides a theoretical explanation, which suggests that incentive amounts have diminishing returns as the amount approaches the actual value of the service being performed, at which point people perceive answering the survey as more of an economic exchange than a social exchange and have an easier time refusing the money [ 28].

The frequency of the collisions appeared to increase with the solid hold-up, up to a given value, and decrease for solid amounts approaching the fixed bed state.

Low abundance unmodified signature digestion products for tRNA-Arg (CCU) and tRNA-Arg (UCU) were found within the exclusion list data set (MS only) supporting the explanation that these tRNAs are present but at amounts approaching the limit of detection by our LC-MS/MS system.

In northeastern and central Kansas, rainfall amounts approached 5 – 6 inches locally (125 – 150 mm).

More interesting is the fact that at the highest initial surfactant concentrations, the adsorbed amounts approach the same limiting values with and without emulsion for all systems except HPA/DMAM.

If an opponent's point total approaches the amount needed for victory, look for good players to toss out strategically placed shots that score points and try to forcefully drive the opposition's discs off the court.

This amount is approaching the total public health budget in Australia of AU$2265 million.

It can be inferred that MA/MB close to 0 dB means that the UC traffic amount approaches 0 and almost all subchannels will be assigned to the NC traffic.

According to the authors, this amount approaches or, in some cases, exceeds the U.S. EPA guidelines for MeHg exposure during pregnancy (0.1 μg/kg/day).