The phrase "amount close to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing quantities or figures that are nearly equal to a specified value.
Example: "The total cost of the project is expected to be an amount close to $10,000."
Alternatives: "approximately" or "around".
But Ms. Granholm need not expect to get $1 million, or any amount close to that.
Kevin Cramer, Mr. Giuliani's state party chairman and a state public service commissioner, said Mr. Giuliani's appearance at a fund-raiser in Fargo raised a remarkable, perhaps unprecedented amount, close to $50,000.
In an unsupported bit of speculation, he estimated that at least half the reserves could be cost-effectively recovered — an amount close to the combined capacity of Iraq and Kuwait.
When something you own is necessary to the success of a venture, even if its contribution is small, you'll tend to ask for an amount close to the full value of the venture.
In other words, we would need to increase taxes by 7.1percentt of G.D.P. immediately and forever just to pay for all the Medicare benefits that have been promised — an amount close to what is now raised by the individual income tax.
Some lawmakers pointed out that state revenues were running above projections by an amount close to the $500 million mandated by the court, an amount roughly equal to the sum that would be raised by reinstating the so-called millionaire's tax on the highest incomes, which expired at the end of 2009.
But he seemed to agree that New York City police officers should be paid an amount closer to the salaries paid on Long Island.
Writing in The Financial Times on Thursday, Kenneth S. Rogoff, the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, said the United States would have to spend 5 to 10 times as much as it already has on bailouts, an amount closer to $1 trillion to $2 trillion.
A spokesman for the Random House division had said repeatedly that it would be interested in a deal at the right price, and the price under discussion had fallen to bargain levels, dropping from an initial $400 million to an amount closer to $300 million, according to people involved in the bidding.
When taking into account all 14 lifestyle and environmental risk factors analyzed in the study, the number of cancer cases attributed to preventable circumstances increased to an amount closer to 135,000.
