The phrase 'contracts amounting to' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to agreements or contracts that have a specified monetary value. For example: "The company entered into contracts amounting to $1 million."
The 40 contracts amount to 75percentt of the long-term deals the Davis administration wants to make.
Russia's ambassador in Tripoli — later recalled by Mr. Medvedev — protested that endangering the contracts amounted to "a betrayal of Russia's interests".
In two landmark cases, the English courts have ruled that restrictions in sportsmen's contracts amounted to unreasonable restraints of trade.
"We're relationship-driven, and we're proud of it," Mr. Norcross said, noting that the bank's government contracts amounted to 10percentto12percentcent of its overall business.
Concerns that zero-hours contracts amount to an attack on the terms and conditions of low paid and younger workers were compounded yesterday by speculation that the government plans to cut the minimum wage following a review by the Low Pay Commission.
The contracts amount to the world's largest single deal for new solar energy capacity, said officials from the utility, Southern California Edison, and BrightSource Energy, the company that would build and run the plants.
The costs of the proposed contracts amount to nearly $200 million over seven years, including proposed 22percentt pay increases for the police officers and detectives who are already among the highest paid in the nation.
Once again the dispute turns on whether past payments and disputed historic contracts amounted to one oligarch promising a slice of his empire to the other, or whether, in fact, the money flows were evidence of krysha payments – that is, protection money.
According to figures released to the BBC by the League Managers Association LMAA), the cost of compensation, legal fees and 'double contracts' amounted to £99m.
