Sentence examples for figures amounts from inspiring English sources

In a region where median household income is less than $33,000, the first big flush of oil- and gas-related income produced leasing checks of six and seven figures — amounts the recipients say are a bit disorienting.

But even those figures amount to nearly half a million people harmed unnecessarily every year.

Mr. Kaiser said the before and after figures amounted to "a death record".

Mr. López argued that the disqualification, a method used by Venezuela's government against other opposition figures, amounted to political discrimination.

They hover between Catholicism and Protestantism to the extent that Protestant art historians in 19th-century Germany claimed that the spiritual reserve of his figures amounted to pre-Reformation antireligiosity.

"It will tide us over, and will help, but it doesn't cover prescriptions," which he figures amount to more than $2,000 a year for the "normal problems as senior citizens" that he said he and his wife have.

He said the figures amounted to a "disappointing soft start" to the year and were "another reminder that the eurozone's economic recovery remains fragile".

Unlike campaign contributions, which are capped in the thousand-dollar range, donations to the political conventions can be — and have been — written in seven-figure amounts.

At the Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, one of his favorite suppliers, he has been known to spend six-figure amounts at a single sale.

But the city police pension fund listed the six-figure amounts being collected by 536 retired police officers without giving their names.

On Tuesday, Verizon and the communications workers union negotiated a contract covering 51 workers in the wireless division, but that figure amounts to a fraction of the company's 40,000-employee wireless work force.