"collection amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the total amount of money being collected in a specific context, such as a fundraiser. For example: After a week long fundraising effort, the collection amount was $2,000.
The total number of dolls in the collection amounts to nearly 60.
The collection amounts to the largest of its kind held by a university in the New York area, said Jennifer Udell, Fordham's curator of university art.
The collection amounts, in fact, to a concise history of American art since 1880 that has been built up generation by generation.
My heel collection amounts to one pair of platforms resembling, on close inspection, a built-up shoe, so it is with sheer admiration and horror that I view these girls effortlessly sprinting towards a sports car.
But the majority of the collection amounts to a fantastical array of masks, animals, figures and groupings with sources of inspiration as diverse as pre-Columbian, African and Southeast Asian art and the fragmented planes of Picasso's early Cubist assemblages.
Simon Chaplin, head of the Wellcome Library, said: "Together the collection amounts to a dizzying visual record of centuries of human culture, and our attempts to understand our bodies, minds and health through art and observation".
Simon Chaplin, head of the Wellcome Library, said: "Together the collection amounts to a dizzying visual record of centuries of human culture, and our attempts to understand our bodies, minds and health through art and observation". Wellcome has made them available as part of its policy of open access to all.
The collection, amounting to over one million items, consists of monographs, serials, microformat materials, lithographs, maps, films, photographs, video and audio tapes, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and electronic resources, covering the area between Central Asia and the Atlantic Ocean and from Asia Minor to sub-Saharan Africa.
The Santa Cruz collection amounts to a kind of documentary paper-trail left by the band.
Henry Blundell was a collector, first of paintings and later of statues and antiquities, the collection amounting to over 500 items.
