The phrase "amounting to what" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when questioning the significance, value, or outcome of something.
Example: "The project was a failure, but the costs were high, amounting to what in the end?"
Alternatives: "resulting in what" or "leading to what".
The programme is ambitious, amounting to what artistic director John McGrath calls a theatrical "mapping" of Wales.
All amounting to what Jonathan Franzen, in a recent article in the New Yorker, described so dully as that old "suspension of disbelief".
The only military presence was a few guards on the edge of Basra, amounting to what you'd expect at the entrance to an urban U.S. high school.
But initial deliveries are to start at about 500 megawatts, enough to power only about 500,000 homes, amounting to what even one of the governor's senior advisers acknowledged was "a first baby-step" toward solving the shortage.
The Buckingham Palace declaration, to be signed today, will see companies and trade bodies sign up to 11 principles amounting to what is being called a "zero tolerance" policy towards the trade.
As Iranian negotiators spoke in positive tones about their resumed nuclear negotiations with the big powers, Congressional lawmakers in Washington introduced legislation on Wednesday that would greatly expand the sanctions on Iran, amounting to what both supporters and critics said would be like a commercial trade embargo if fully carried out.
This haul amounted to what remained of 500 slaughtered elephants.
This amounts to what Mexicans call a "trucking tax".
The concerns expressed by Chief Justice Rehnquist amount to what lawyers call the slippery slope.
Taken together, they amounted to what federal officials called the "largest mob roundup in F.B.I. history".
The underlying violence still amounts to what the IBC terms "an entrenched conflict".
