The phrase "amount for the same" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an attempt to express a concept related to equivalence or compensation, but it is unclear and awkwardly phrased.
Example: "The costs will amount for the same services provided last year."
Alternatives: "account for the same" or "correspond to the same".
That's more than double the amount for the same months in 2012.
Its net income for those three months was also more than nine times the amount for the same period last year.
Mr. Obama raised $179 million, or more than twice that amount, for the same period, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
The loss compares with a profit of the same amount for the same period last year and comes despite a 22% rise in sales to $15.7bn for the April to June quarter.
Similarly distorting the cylinder will transform it into an ellipse, but its semi-major axis will lengthen by a much larger amount for the same change in overall surface energy.
In the U.S., you'd easily be looking at four times that amount for the same service".
They wind up paying different amounts for the same book, just as airline passengers pay different amounts for a seat on the same flight.
For instance, you can see people paying different amounts for the same thing: phone bills, cable bills, haircuts, gym memberships.
A broad swath of psychological and economic research has argued that people will pay different amounts for the same item depending on who is providing it.
In his Oct. 4 column about price fairness and Amazon.com's charging different customers different amounts for the same products, Paul Krugman raises an interesting issue that is at the heart of all transactions in our new economy.
"Nine out of 10 lone parents are women; 30,000 women lose their job each year because they fall pregnant; we know that women are paid lower amounts for the same work.
