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Discover LudwigThe phrase "were amounted" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not usable as it does not convey a clear meaning and is grammatically incorrect. Example: "The costs were amounted to a significant sum." (should be "The costs amounted to a significant sum.")
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were amounted
noun
The total, aggregate or sum of material .
Exact(5)
When small amounts of benzyl trialkylammonium chlorides were added to the PHBV solution, the average diameter was decreased to 1.0 μm and the fibers were amounted in a straight shape.
However, the fatigue life was considerably decreased when these defects were amounted at the level of 5% porosity.
In the United States alone, the quantity of phenol and chlorophenols wastes produced in industries were amounted to 56,000 and 1900 tons, respectively, in 1999 (Tarighian et al. 2003; Tobajas et al. 2012).
Skin effect and permeability in the surrounding of each of these producing wells were amounted to 7.017 and 3.0396 millidarcy (md) for Well-07 and those of 7.014 and 2.7839 md for Well-10, respectively, by the end of the year of 2007.
So, the costs of staff-time, their transportation costs and allowances including the apportioned use of capital items like motor bikes were amounted US$3.133.
Similar(55)
Probably should be "amounts".
Statutory damages are amounts set by law.
The repairing solution is: amount and quantity.
The output is amount produced from input.
This is total amount payable.
There were huge amounts of floor space.
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