Sentence examples for money amounting from inspiring English sources

Dozens of United Ways from Massachusetts to San Francisco have cut off money amounting to millions of dollars each year.

The son continued borrowing money from the company and it continued taking money, amounting to several thousand pounds, from his mother's account without her permission.

Every month, they were kindly going to pay me a sum of money amounting to half of what it would have been a decade earlier.

Early in 1599 Shakespeare, who had been acting with the Lord Chamberlain's Men since 1594, paid into the coffers of the company a sum of money amounting to 12.5 percent of the cost of building the Globe.

As the East Asian countries erased capital controls during the 1990s, they enjoyed huge inflows of foreign money, amounting to 5-10% of GDP (see chart), which went hand-in-hand with fast growth.

The government contributes around $19m per year, and you would have thought that this might have led to significant questions about value for money – amounting to over half a billion dollars over the past 10 years.

The court said the money amounted to a bribe.

In some cases, the requests for money amounted to blackmail, Wikipedia told The Independent.

The prize money amounts to $573,860, all contributed by the contestants.

The government contends that the money amounted to illegal campaign donations; Mr. Edwards says they were personal gifts from friends.

For critics of this system, the use of blood money amounts to the effective privatisation of Pakistan's legal system.