The phrase "an amount that exceeds" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to express a quantity or number that is greater than a specific limit or expectation. Example: "The company's expenses have reached an amount that exceeds their budget for the quarter."
A LOT". It's an amount that exceeds one out of every 10 people who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 in Multnomah County, in fact.
The American International Group has used $90.3 billion of a government credit line since it was bailed out last month, an amount that exceeds the size of the original loan meant to save the company.
No institution of higher education shall receive a grant pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) in any fiscal year in an amount that exceeds 25percentt of such institution's cooperative education program's personnel and operating budget for the preceding fiscal year.
As of March 2013, Treasury said, more than 1.1 million homeowners had moved from trial modifications to permanent modifications of their mortgages, for median savings of $546 a month, an amount that exceeds the median relief resulting from private sector modifications.
Instead, each week's winner has the option of receiving $10,000 in upgrades and repairs to their cars (vehicles which are probably not worth more than scrap value) or taking their chances in Monday's finale for $50,000 in repairs and improvements, an amount that exceeds the original cost of almost every car in the series.
[Note: A cash-out refinance is a loan for an amount that exceeds the balance on the loan that is paid off].
They quote from what they say were three wiretap-related documents in which the government told judges about a recorded July 2010 conversation in which Mr. Liu and Ms. Ru are heard "discussing an illegal campaign contribution" of $10,000 from a donor, an amount that exceeded the legal limit.
While the CCPA restricts creditors from garnishing more than 25percentt of an employee's income, or any amount that exceeds 30 times the federal minimum wage (whichever is less), Vermont is more protective of its debtors.
Those tax breaks came to be called "the refundables" because eligible taxpayers would get a tax refund check for any amount that exceeded their actual income-tax liability.
The Section 8 assistance is used to pay off the monthly mortgage amount that exceeds the family's ability to pay.
"None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives to make any payments from any Members' Representational Allowance for the leasing of a vehicle, excluding mobile district offices, in an aggregate amount that exceeds $1,000 for the vehicle in any month".
