"total amount of spending" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used in financial statements and business reports. For example: "After reviewing the total amount of spending for the past month, I noticed there had been a considerable decrease in our operating costs."
"By the year 2000, the total amount of spending on capital improvement should increase to about $95 billion to $100 billion," he said.
Mr Osborne imposed the welfare spending cap on government expenditure to cap the total amount of spending on social security in a year.
"In Norway alone," he points out, "the total amount of spending on Christmas equals the $7.2bn requested for Syria and its neighbours in the UN's latest humanitarian appeal".
The remaining balance was the total amount of spending on health from public and international sources.
In the long run, however, it can only affect inflation.But the total amount of spending in the economy is nothing more and nothing less than aggregate demand.
If you believe that the iPhone 5 can give the economy a lift, you've already conceded both that the total amount of spending in the economy isn't a fixed number and that more spending is what we need.
The IAEA estimates that by 2020 the total amount of spent nuclear fuel worldwide will have reached 440,000 tonnes and three-quarters of it will be in storage, often at the reactor sites, and requiring monitoring, safeguarding and protection.
Taking just one of its established cities, Sao Paolo in Brazil, today the total amount of spend across all app-based transport services is estimated at just 1.5 million Brazilian reals, or $470,000.
This safety record is comparable to the worldwide experience where more than 70,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel have been transported since 1970 – an amount approximately equal to the total amount of spent nuclear fuel that would have been shipped to Yucca Mountain.
But when you examine the total amount of time spent online, 11.9percentt was spent on MySpace versus 3.7percentt on eBay (according to Compete.com).com
The total amount of calories spent (kcal/week) was attained by calculating the time spent carrying out the activities, taking into consideration the positive frailty criteria values equal to or lower than the lower quintile of the sample.
