Sentence examples for amounts for a from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "amounts for a" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a misinterpretation of "amounts to a," which is used to indicate equivalence or a total.
Example: "The total expenses amounts to a significant sum that we need to address."
Alternatives: "equates to a" or "adds up to a".

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We occasionally coughed up extortionate amounts for a shoddy train trip to London.

(n), which related to availability of amounts for a new fixed guideway capital project.

Banks could already borrow unlimited amounts for a year, and roll those loans over when they expired.

Many prospective buyers who are currently renting are now suffering the double whammy of saving bigger amounts for a deposit while seeing their rent increase.

People will not only pay vast amounts for a ticket to one of the megafestivals, but those tickets will sell out the day they go on sale.

They wind up paying different amounts for the same book, just as airline passengers pay different amounts for a seat on the same flight.

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But 200 megabytes is a paltry amount for a game.

Commercials paid twice that amount for a single day.

That is the correct amount for a sale between strangers.

That is a vast amount for a work on paper.

Not a great amount for a cornerstone, is it?

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