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The phrase "amounted to approximately" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a quantity or value that is not exact but is close to a specific number.
Example: "The total expenses for the project amounted to approximately $5,000."
Alternatives: "came to about" or "totaled roughly".
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The total excavation length amounted to approximately 40 km.
Sales in the first week have amounted to approximately £25,000.
Keane, which is based in Boston, will also assume Metro's debt, which as of July amounted to approximately $68 million.
The P content in the topsoil relicts amounted to approximately 86% of the P content of the modern, fertilized topsoils.
The authors also noted that this cost amounted to approximately half the amount projected as recently as 2008.
In 2005, used or unwanted electronics amounted to approximately 1.9 million to 2.2 million tons of waste in the United States.
Before beginning the project, his repertoire amounted to approximately 240 songs, so to complete the whole year he will have to learn half as many again.
Federal funding amounted to approximately $90 million last year, making PPPL the single largest recipient of sponsored research dollars at Princeton.
Carbonate dissolution rates amounted to approximately 1.7 3.0 mol m−2 year−1 if they are referred (normalised) to 1000 mm soil water fluxes.
According to the Institute of Temporary Serv ices, a national trade asso ciation, volume last year of the companies in this field amounted to approximately $1‐billion.
Over the decade, net shareholder inflows amounted to approximately $407 billion, or 11% of the $3.67 trillion in net shareholder payouts by S&P 500 firms.
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