The phrase "amounted to modest" is not correct in English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity.
Example: "The total contributions amounted to modest support for the project."
Alternatives: "resulted in modest" or "led to modest".
He hit underhand flips in the indoor batting cage, which amounted to modest preparation for a player who seldom gets to the plate.
Nasdaq OMX and four other bourses said they would pressure listed companies into disclosing details of their environmental and social footprints.Such unilateral promises and the likely Rio+20 agreement probably amounted to modest progress.
On Wednesday, presumably mindful of the fact that thousands of "apprenticeships" have simply amounted to modest retraining packages for existing employees, the ever-stoic Vince Cable unveiled a new £1,500 "incentive payment" aimed at convincing firms to hire trainees.
The coalition of liberals and conservatives said it had no quarrel with the majority of the expanded counterterrorism tools that the law provided, some of which amounted to modest upgrades in the government's ability to use modern technology in wiretapping phone calls and the like.
Carter thinks many teams are indeed too quick to devote time and resources aimed at capturing what amounts to modest, incremental revenue.
Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine, said the $80 billion commitment amounted to "a modest percentage" of national spending on prescription drugs.
JPMorgan on Friday also gave an update on its disastrous London whale trade, saying it amounted to a "modest loss" in the quarter.
The production version of the Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid visited The New York Times Wednesday evening and was offered for a brief test drive that amounted to a modest victory lap for the long-delayed performance sedan.
With the full spring-break influx of protesters only beginning here, the Starbucks scene amounted to a modest homage by vanguard demonstrators proud of the global economic protest in Seattle last year when Starbucks windows were smashed by vandals in bandanna masks.
While the new round of sanctions amounted to a relatively modest increase, Mr. Pence warned that more punishing measures loom from the Treasury Department in coming days.
President Barack Obama insisted that "nobody is listening to your phone calls", and claimed the two monitoring programmes amounted to only "a modest encroachment on privacy".
