"around the same amount" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to an amount that is close to but not exactly the same as another amount. For example, "I have around the same amount of money left in my bank account as I did last month."
Festivals took around the same amount.
In its fiscal year 2010, ended in April, wholesale and retail sales contributed around the same amount to the company's revenue, $2.5 billion for wholesale, and $2.3 billion for retail.
If you want to twist my arm, it probably took around the same amount of time for the interest from the American industry to turn into confidence in these three directors to be able helm U.S. productions, and it would have probably taken an equal amount of time for all three directors to ponder such a proposition".
The cost of the Rando billboard campaign is "around the same amount it would cost us to develop a small app", according to Mills.
Eleven percent plan to spend more, while 59percentt expect to spend around the same amount.
That's 300,000 words annually, plus around the same amount again in emails.
The scheme worked this way: the company transferred the taxable profit on the sale to a newly created partnership with a foreign company, which turned around and returned the same amount to AlliedSignal in a way that made it no longer count as taxable profits.
After our talk, I spoke with one of her graduate students, Erin Bumgarner, who moonlights as a part-time nanny for around $17 an hour — the same amount that Park Slope parents pay to immigrant nannies with no college education.
Being sober around drunk people for the same amount of time as it takes for the earth to rotate 360 degrees on its axis is no laughing matter.
Although the Europeans refused to specify the European share, Merkel said it should be around one-third; the same amount should be supplied by the US, and Germany would foot around 20% of the European bill.
In the case of NB, adding infection betweenness centrality enhances performance by almost the same amount (around 0.3) regardless of the network.
