Sentence examples for amounts towards from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "amounts towards" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something contributes to a total or goal, but "amounts to" is more commonly used.
Example: "The donations from the community amounts towards the new playground fund."
Alternatives: "contributes to" or "adds up to".

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These crowd-funding websites are designed so many people can contribute small amounts towards projects that they think are important.

If you are going to be providing different amounts towards the deposit, and paying different shares of the mortgage, you should register yourselves as "joint tenants in unequal shares" when you buy the property, and should draw up a "deed of trust" laying down who owns what.

Quartz is present in low amounts in most of the profile, and smectite and non-crystalline partially altered tephra occur in low amounts towards the bottom.

To the dismay of many postdoctoral fellows in academia, they are often not eligible for fringe benefits offered by the institution where they are working, nor are they eligible to contribute to a pension plan and deduct those amounts towards income tax savings.

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There are hence six stimulus conditions (three amounts of shift towards the higher reward, and three shift amounts toward the lower reward) and ten delay conditions, amounting to sixty combinations.

Sting has given an undisclosed amount towards the £5m cost of regenerating Tynemouth outdoor pool, which is five miles away from where the singer grew up in Wallsend.

He was awarded just under £800,000, following the December 2008 ruling, which included an amount towards his legal costs, after the employment tribunal found there was a culture of bullying at the News of the World.

If you are not putting in the same amount towards the deposit, mortgage and other expenses, it's important to get everything documented in a formal declaration of trust.

We pay an enormous amount towards foreign aid as it is, I don't think we need to be helping with a rescue programme in the Med as well".

"The private plans gives one an easy tool to use to contain costs in the future: the ability to create a defined contribution system," where the government is only obliged to pay a certain amount towards care, said Marilyn Moon, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute who served as a trustee for the Medicare and Social Security trust funds.

A central composite design (CCD) was used to optimize the two major influential reaction variables: catalyst and methanol amount towards purity and yield of methyl esters.

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