The phrase "amount to ongoing" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey a sense of continuity or persistence, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "The issues we face amount to ongoing challenges that need to be addressed."
Alternatives: "equate to continuous" or "result in ongoing".
Needless to say the state contributes large amounts to ongoing cancer research, but the donations made by individual people or companies play an important part in this work which must continue until all aims are achieved.
There is also a campaign to raise a similar amount to pay the ongoing treatment costs for Laxmi, who was attacked by two youths at Khan market, New Delhi in 2005, when she was just 15 years old.
The screen version, by contrast, is so infuriatingly coy, and so desperate to preserve the modesty of its soulful victim that it amounts to an ongoing clean-up operation.
Until then, America will effectively be distracted by dramatic villains who aren't even the ones responsible for what amounts to an ongoing national bloodbath.
On the latter, his Day One cut of the vehicle license fee -- which you will note that Brown has not reversed -- was wildly popular but revived what amounted to an ongoing structural deficit.
These ongoing costs amount to well over £100m spent so far, without a single well yet producing gas.
Ongoing expenses to industry would amount to about £11m.
In the optimistic scenario, where the only costs would be to government and for ongoing expenses to industry, the costs might amount to £33m (table 7).
Ironically — or absurdly — this maintenance was part of ongoing infrastructure overhauls that have already done a tremendous amount to rid Tumblr of the awful tumblebeasts.
The museum's report adds to an ongoing discussion around whether the attacks that IS has waged against the Yazidis could amount to genocide.
