Sentence examples for amounting to a staggering from inspiring English sources

With its debt amounting to a staggering ¤3bn and deficit slated to swell to 12.7% of GDP, Papandreou set out an ambitious programme of fiscal targets to reduce the deficit by almost 4% next year.

After the euro zone summit meeting last week, which cleared a second rescue package for Greece amounting to a staggering €109 billion, or $157 billion, Mrs. Merkel once again has to explain to the German Parliament and to the German public why they have to pay.

"The NFU estimates the appalling weather of 2012 has led to a financial black hole on Britain's farms amounting to a staggering £1.3 billion," he said.

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer for women worldwide with a lifetime risk amounting to a staggering total of 10%.

In the early years of the Act's operation, these categories contained the largest number of cases, amounting to a staggering 1,263 (of 3,832) cases in 1939 (33percentnt of the total number of stillbirths registered in Scotland in this year), although this figure quickly dropped to 755 (20 per cent) in 1941 and 590 (16 per cent) in 1942 while the number of stillbirths remained fairly constant.

It amounts to a whitewash".

This would amount to a palace coup.

Either would amount to a victory.

This amounts to a sea change.

This bland phrase amounts to a revolution.

This would not amount to a veto.