The phrase "amount comparable to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing quantities or values that can be measured against each other for similarity or equivalence.
Example: "The budget for this project is an amount comparable to last year's expenditures."
Alternatives: "amount similar to" or "amount equivalent to".
Salle recalled: "The situation was horrible a year ago – €20bn for three companies was an amount comparable to an entire budget for some countries".
From those paltry 30 acres in the early 1970s, plantings in Condrieu are now about 300 acres — still a tiny amount, comparable to a single large Bordeaux estate, but firmly established, nonetheless.
Rejected applicants often stay in Germany, and the government continues to support them financially with an amount comparable to long-term unemployed German Nationals.
According to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, R&D spending in the Swiss pharma industry amounted to €4.62 billion in 2010 an amount comparable to that of much larger countries such as France and Germany.
Cell biologists Fredric Boockfor and Charles Blake of the University of South Carolina Medical School injected rats three times a week with 20 milligrams of octylphenol--an amount comparable to what has been found in the fatty tissue of fish in some polluted rivers.
On the other hand, rice bran also contains a non-negligible amount of oil, around 15 25 %, that potentially translates into 6.4 MMT/y [4], an amount comparable to that of other important commodities such as cotton seed and palm kernel oil.
Most of Naked Juice's products have fewer calories than that — often amounts comparable to those found in nondiet soft drinks.
A panel voted on Tuesday to recommend raising rents on rent-stabilized apartments in New York City by amounts comparable to those approved last year.
But slightly over a year ago scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse showed that monkeys give themselves THC in amounts comparable to that inhaled by people who smoke marijuana, according to a study published in Nature Neuroscience.
The Akron Beacon Journal reported on Sunday that Mr. Bush was spending about $800,000 and Mr. McCain about $650,000 on television commercials in Ohio, amounts comparable to what is spent here in competitive races for governor or the Senate.
