The phrase "amounts to approx" is not correct in standard written English.
The word "approx" is an informal abbreviation for "approximately" and should not be used in this context without being fully spelled out.
Example: "The total cost amounts to approximately $500."
Alternatives: "equals about" or "comes to roughly".
To give a solid example: Structural steel work for the solar field of a 500,000 m2 aperture parabolic trough plant (typical 50 MW plant in Spain with 7 h thermal storage) amounts to approx. 12,500 tons of steel.
Osteoporosis is also associated with costs due to lost economic value-added which amounts to approx. €40 million.
"After tax, this allowance amounts to approx £350 a month and just covers my basic £17 a night accommodation at the Lympstone Marine Camp," he said.
For the year 2008, the total annual financial burden incurred by osteoporotic fractures in Austria amounted to approx. €685.2 million, the largest fraction of which was due to the opportunity cost of family care (30.2%), followed by costs for hospitalization (26.6%).
Deezer raised €6.5 million in October 2009 in a series B round, bringing the total amount invested to approx €12.2 million, but a big part of this money was used to pay royalties to majors (one of the strengths of Deezer were these agreements, but it seems they had weakened the company).
Especially for IL-1β, the amount was increased to approx. 15-fold more than that in the joints of normal mice.
The applied sampling frequency of DRM modulator amounts to f s =48 kHz (approx. 5 times oversampled) and thus is sufficient enough to evaluate the efficiency of PAPR reduction techniques for DRM signals.
39% of the patients, i.e. 93'000 patients per year, acquired stabilizing ortheses, at an average cost of CHF 100, which amounts to a total amount of additional costs of approx. CHF 9.3 million per year.
[France] – Music search and discovery engine Deezer has raised €6.5 million in a second round of financing, bringing the total amount invested in the French upstart to approx. €12.2 million.
The experiments are conducted at a fixed flow rate of approx. 1 cm3/min for both pumps (i.e., reservoir tanks) which amounts to a total volume flow rate through the rock sample of 2 cm3/min.
