The phrase "total amount of fines" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the cumulative value of all fines that have been issued or paid in a certain context. For example: "In total, the city has collected $50,000 in fines this year, making it the highest total amount of fines ever collected."
In the first year since the change was made, the total amount of fines issued by the ICO increased to £2m, from £360,000 seen in the previous year.
Here is how I would sum up the tenor of many of the comments: A good beginning, but in essence a slap on the wrist, with the total amount of fines reaching only $350,000.
Exposing corruption at the heart of the world's biggest currency dealers, the City regulator fined five banks – including bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland – £1.1bn in a settlement co-ordinated with a major US regulator which pushed the total amount of fines up to £2bn.
Between May 11 , 1923 and December 31 , 1923 the total amount of fines for violation of the prohibition law collected by this village court was upwards of $20,000, from which the state received $8,992.50, North College Hill received $4,471.25 for its general uses, $2,697.25 was placed to the credit of the village safety fund, and the balance was put in the secret service fund.
And while there's been debate since then about whether D.C.'s law is effective, the total amount of fines in the past year has topped $1 million so far.
Mayoral Spokesman Marc LaVorgna said the total amount of fines collected from individuals and businesses rose from $479 million in 2002 - Bloomberg's first year in office - to $817 million in 2012.
We observe a similar trend with the uncoated and PES coated siltstone Interburden-S (Fig. 12b), but the total amount of fines produced from the uncoated siltstone is much lower than from the mudstone because the siltstone contains fewer swelling clays than the mudstone.
E.P.A. models built on these assumptions now appear to understate the total amount of fine particles, according to Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts, a professor at Irvine and one of the study's authors.
The final model identified current and former presence of a dog in the home, use of a dehumidifier, the total amount of fine dust, and the presence of a concrete floor and water damage as playing key roles in the relationship between airborne and settled-dust endotoxin (Park et al. 2001b).
Other home characteristics were identified as important determinants of increased airborne endotoxin in this model, but individual coefficients were not statistically significant (alpha = 0.05): total amount of fine dust collected in the home (partial R(2 )= 3.8%), concrete floor in family room (3.7%), water damage (3.6%), and use of cool-mist humidifier in past year (2.7%).
Emphasizing that reality, a report in state-run media Tuesday morning noted that the Qualcomm settlement was more than the total amount of antimonopoly fines given out by China's National Development and Reform Commission in 2014.
