Sentence examples for amounting from inspiring English sources
The word "amounting" is correct and usable in written English, and it is a verb. You can use it to describe the process of accumulating a quantity or amount of something, or to suggest that something reaches a certain amount or degree. Example sentence: His debts amounted to an astonishing amount.
This presents us with the intriguing prospect that more of the circumstances of everyday urban life might be managed this way, on a participatory basis, by autonomous neighbourhood groups networked with one another in something amounting to a city-wide federation.
It said he had failed to "truthfully account" for sums amounting to 250,000 Irish punts received between 1993 and 1995.
Councils in the north of England have had to make cuts amounting to £160 a head more than their counterparts in the south-east, new research has shown.
More than 400 people perished, over 14,000 homes were destroyed, and the city incurred losses amounting to £1.2bn.
Britain is not necessarily becoming more godless – in the same period, the number of Muslims grew by a million, amounting to 2.4% of the population – just less the proportion of Anglicans.
In various venues, Google has shared some 40 examples of delisting requests granted and denied (including 22 examples on its website), and it has revealed the top sources of material requested to be delisted (amounting to less than 8% of total candidate URLs).
Both major parties will be pleased that newly imposed spending limits - amounting to £15.8m each if they contested every one of the 659 parliamentary seats - are in force.
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