The phrase "amounts scheme" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a plan or system related to amounts, but without additional context, it is unclear when to use it.
Example: "The amounts scheme proposed by the committee was met with mixed reactions from the stakeholders."
Alternatives: "amounts plan" or "amounts system".
The council said the total scheme amounted to £116.4m and had additional funding from the Local Growth Fund and Economic Development Fund.
That means the annual amount the scheme pays out in retirement will be dramatically reduced.
However, the developer submitted a "viability report" claiming that "it is not viable to provide on-site affordable housing and that the offer of £8.5m as a payment in lieu of affordable housing is the maximum reasonable amount the scheme can viably afford".
China's Development Research Centre and the World Bank say that on the basis of 2010 figures energy-efficiency targets for Chinese state-owned enterprises save about the same amount; that scheme has recently been much expanded.Subsidies for solar and wind power do less than you might expect, considering the attention they receive.
But critics say that the scheme amounts to privatisation of natural resources.
And researchers in the UK can apply for European grants, which in the current Horizon 2020 scheme amounts to a fund of more than €70bn (£56bn) over six years.
Other brands have donated only token amounts to the scheme with Asda's owner Walmart, for example, offering only about $1m compared to more than $8m from the UK's Primark.
Randell's latest scheme "amounts to a plan to print his own money," say federal investigators who have tried to untangle the dealings of a pair of Randell companies called the International Trade Exchange and the Washington Trade Exchange.
The Raman frequency shift for the 1st Stokes wave in this scheme amounts to ~410 cm−1 that is close to the maximum of the Raman gain in a highly Ge-doped silica fiber (420 440 cm−1 depending on the GeO2 concentration28), while the shift for the 2nd Stokes wave ~300 cm−1 is far from the gain maximum.
Critics, including leading doctors, say the scheme amounts to "bribery".
