The phrase "amount builds" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a quantity or level of something increases or accumulates over time.
Example: "As the project progressed, the amount builds, leading to a significant increase in resources needed."
Alternatives: "quantity increases" or "total accumulates".
Mr. Glynn said the utility had always spent appropriate sums on maintenance, coming within one-half of one percent of the amount built into rates over a 20-year period.
If you have a healthy amount built up in savings, you're less likely to rely on credit to escape financial difficulties.
Pension amounts build up slowly at first, then more and more quickly, providing an incentive for experienced teachers to stay.
In 1956, Roswell Magill, a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, spoke for a generation of professionals when he wrote that law firms "can no longer honestly assure promising young men that if they become partners they can save money in substantial amounts, build country homes and gardens for themselves like their fathers and grandfathers did, and plan extensive European holidays".
"You get less pressure as underdogs, but if you are quarter-finalists, there is a certain amount that builds up," he said.
This is a company that takes a money amount and builds the best audio system you can imaging using stock and custom parts.
"Contractors were already spending twice that amount to build the walls they were building because they had to use eight times as much material.
With the increasing amount of built infrastructures such as residential and commercial buildings and decreasing permeable unpaved open areas, the stormwater runoff is rapidly increased.
Through the third quarter this year, the amount of new office space under construction in suburban areas was roughly double the amount being built in central business districts, by CoStar's count.
