Sentence examples for debts amount from inspiring English sources

Dubai's debts amount to $80bn£48.4bnbn); Abu Dhabi has several times that sum in overseas investments.

Spain's debts amount to €640 billion.Another cause for unease is European banks' reliance on short-term wholesale financing from outside the continent.

According to official figures, bad debts amount to no more than 5% of the banking system's total loans, as opposed to 25-30% in Thailand and an even higher proportion in Indonesia.

Currently, Greece's debts amount to about a hundred and seventy-five per cent of its G.D.P., and, unlike Weimar Germany, it doesn't have powerful export industries that could theoretically generate the funds to pay them off.

In June 2010, he projected it might reach as high as 24 trillion yuan ($3.7 trillion) by the end of 2012, or over half of China's GDP.But the central government itself now reckons the debts amount to 10 trillion yuan, according to an official cited by Reuters a quarter of GDP.

Hearts entered administration in June and BDO, which has taken over the running of the club, revealed last month that club debts amount to £28.4m.

Iceland's households also racked up debts amounting to 213% of disposable income.

Berlin refused to die from debts amounting to €30 million, or $40 million.

The China Banking Regulatory Commission says their debts amounted to 7.4 trillion yuan at the end of last year.

In 1982 their property was worth 106% of GDP and their debts amounted to less than 50% of that sum.

South Koreans became hooked on plastic so dizzyingly fast that by 2003 they owned on average four credit cards each and their collective debts amounted to about $100 billion.