Sentence examples for amounted to close from inspiring English sources
In 2008 alone, carbon credit transactions amounted to close to $7 billion, it said.
The soft money collected in the latest election cycle amounted to close to half a billion dollars -- enough, one would think, to satisfy any fund-raiser or political party for some time to come.
At first, the testing issue amounted to closing loopholes to the out-of-competition rule and streamlining it across all sports and continents.
Were the abatements not in place, the revenue generated for the same properties in fiscal 2001 would amount to close to $100 million.
It has been suggested that SAFE's equity investments abroad may already amount to close to $100 billion.
This amounts to closing down opponents, which in another language becomes "gegenpressing".
Cumulative measures over the three-year period amount to close to 10% of GDP in Greece and Portugal and 8% in Ireland.
The portion of all stock trading taking place away from the public exchanges hit new highs over the last few weeks, amounting to close to 40 percent on several days, up from an average of 16 percent in 2008, according to Rosenblatt Securities.
In the course of the crisis, these banks suffered huge loan losses amounting to close to 12% of GDP.
