The phrase "amounted to slightly" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not a commonly used expression and lacks clarity in meaning.
Example: "The changes in the budget amounted to slightly more than expected."
Alternatives: "totaled to a bit" or "came to a slight".
Still, those sales amounted to slightly less than 3percentt of overall food and beverage sales.
He said the Palestinian G.D.P. now amounted to slightly under $2 billion.
Sales of permanent magnets last year amounted to slightly more than $1 billion, according to industry analysts.
In the last round of bidding, completed three weeks ago, top offers amounted to slightly more than $3 billion, according to several people involved in the talks.
The real spending amounted to slightly more than half of that amount, according to Mr. Koo, and the result was annual economic growth in 1996 of more than 3percentthethighestest growth rate among the Group of Seven nations.
If the result was to be read as a referendum on immigration reform, it was hard to miss the fact that the combined vote for two runner-up candidates who supported a new guest-worker program — the Kolbe position all these years — amounted to slightly more than 50percentt among Eighth District Republicans.
It has what Dr. Schipper calls "closet carbon," meaning carbon dioxide is created when ethanol is manufactured, which may amount to slightly less or more than in gasoline.
So far, the amount the United States has spent on the classified nuclear security program, less than $100 million, amounts to slightly less than one percent of the roughly $10 billion in known American aid to Pakistan since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The size of the effect is quite substantial as it amounts to slightly less than half of the annual return to recent work experience (3.2 compared with 7.2%).
Adjusted for inflation, that would amount to slightly less than the $42.3 million that Bush raised for his second inaugural.
