Sentence examples for fortune amounts from inspiring English sources
Guinean officials then granted exploration permits for half of the deposit to a much smaller company: Beny Steinmetz Group Resources, or B.S.G.R. Beny Steinmetz is, by some estimates, the richest man in Israel; according to Bloomberg, his personal fortune amounts to some nine billion dollars.
The retailer is expected to announce more positive results to the City on Thursday – part of a financial success story that is almost entirely credited to the unconventional retailing nous of Ashley, a self-made man whose fortune amounts to £3.5bn, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
In 2000, his personal fortune amounted to $1 billion.
The authorities discovered a fortune amounting to little more than US $3,000, for seizure.
Her fortune amounted to $16.3 million, much of it produced by shrewd investments in the stock market, according to HeraldScotland.com.
Evans's inventions were given a major boost when leading miller Joseph Tatnall converted his mills to the Evans system, and estimated that in one year the changes saved his operation a small fortune amounting to $37,000.
When such a dispute involves a family that rules a small country and a fortune that amounts to tens of billions of dollars, the complications multiply.
"I follow this pretty closely and hardly a day goes by that somebody doesn't say he's going to give away all his assets to charity," Fleishman said, noting that Zuckerberg's early-years Facebook colleague Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna said they were going to give away their fortune, which amounts to some $8bn, as well.
At the center of the legal battle was how to divide Mr. Silverman's $450 million fortune, an amount acknowledged in court papers.
His father only dabbled in real estate, he said, and their inheritance of an old family trucking fortune never amounted to much.
He said several times that Mr. Bloomberg had spent $200 million of his own fortune — an amount Mr. Thompson said was "obscene" — trying to distort his record.
