How To Use Amount In A Sentence

The total sales of the company didn't amount to more than a few million dollars.
Failing to detain him could actually amount to abuse. The Sun
His eyes have a certain amount of little-boy-lost about them and his slightly nervy, jumpy presence also helps him appear a lot younger than his 43 years.
AERONET is a global network of more than 100 sun photometers that measure the amount of sunlight absorbed by aerosols (fine particles in the air) at wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared.
The huge amounts that this would bring in would allow the personal allowance to be raised by a couple of thousand, helping those on low and medium incomes.

When the effused lymph is not absorbed it organizes, either forming a sort of internal cicatrix which is harder than the surrounding tissues or increasing the density of the part by augmenting the amount of plastic material within it. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
They use a small amount of these drugs, a lot of them just at weekends.
I'm sure there will be a generous amount of worthies stepping forward to parse every sentence, on the eternal quest for the definitive admission that it's over.
The time it takes to start or stop a stopwatch is the same amount of time it would take for someone driving under the influence to lose control of their vehicle, about seven tenths of a second. News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
The amount of water which is suitable to drink is less and less.
As the firm's engraver, he requires an artistic eye and a considerable amount of strength.
Some animals may consume insignificant amounts of the primary production.
He got a huge amount of publicity and attention. Times, Sunday Times
One account is debited for the amount involved in any transaction and another account is credited.
Is there a limit on the amount of money you can claim?
Webb had shoulder surgery in August, a so-called "debridement" procedure that amounted to a clean-up of his rotator cuff and labrum. Azcentral.com | news
Its addition in minute amounts to the nucleoprotein tumor fraction, was expected to suppress the formation of the fibrillar halo if nucleic acids rather that the protein were responsible for the nerve growth promoting effect elicited by this fraction. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
These studies rely on the model that the likelihood of two sequences recombining with each other depends on the average amount of space separating them.
Joining a dating agency has no stigma, it is tantamount to joining a private members' club.
The amount of strain that measuring the heights of all admitted children puts on the medical and nursing staff should not be underestimated.
Likewise, if you told an ethologist that you found a new species of primate that is closely related to chimps, she would instantly know a tremendous amount about this animal and what it might be able to do. Bunny and a Book
The ministry says the tiny amounts of iodine-131 pose no threat to public health.
Unless the context is made very clear, the reader or hearer cannot be sure whether such an expression as ‘fulsome praise’ is meant in the sense ‘generous in amount, extent’ or in the sense Perry suggests.
Or you could look into hydrogen because even though natural gas is in ample amounts … it will run out. Think Progress » Deficit Peacock Evan Bayh Hits ‘Far Left-Wing Blogs’ For Criticizing Obama’s Spending Freeze As Too ‘Austere’
And there was no response in effect to nutrient content grads of internode length and ramets amount.
A table at the bottom compared the calorie content of 100 ml of beer with the same amount of gin, rum, whisky, cognac and wine.
‘We wanted to support the market and gave them the maximum amount of money we could,’ she explained.
The second is the gender division of work, she says, looking at the larger issue of why first generation schoolgoers in particular require an extraordinary amount of care and attention.
We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
Between them, father and son have carved out a place where the song, the voice and the delivery of a real and recognisable emotion are paramount. Times, Sunday Times
If the DJIA falls by the target amount, the collar is called the uptick rule. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
Most people would do well to reduce the amount of salt in their diet.
As a person, though, she is very knowing, which is why she's trying to get through the whole thing with a minimum amount of fuss.
The amount of petrol a car uses is relative to its speed.
Consequently, the young pig must be provided a large amount of energy from fat or carbohydrate in the colostrum in order to survive.
It has been frequently asked if the existing and accepted formula for determining in advance the amount of refined sugar that may be extracted from either beets, _masse cuite_ or raw sugar, is to be considered exact, without special allowance being made for raffinose. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
For example, some professionals are evaluated according to amounts billed to clients.
Agreed - a certain amount of natural skill is required - but that skill needs to be properly nurtured.
The U.S. economy is operating with a massive amount of slack" or unutilized resources such as workers and manufacturing capacity says Sal Guatieri, an economist at Toronto-based BMO Capital Markets. Canada Bank Shift Signals Strong Recovery
As he fought to rip the net apart, Francis noticed, with horror, that their struggles were only pulling the net tighter, causing it to inject increasing amounts of tranquilizing drugs into their bodies.
The Green Paper is the result of an enormous amount of hard work by a large number of people. ANC Daily News Briefing
Rio Algom issued units consisting of 25 common shares and a Debenture in the principal amount of $2,000.
I think there would be a certain amount of consensus about that, even amongst the most quixotic and naturally amorous of us.
Even at these speeds, engine noise was quiet, with only small amounts of road and wind noise.
But up to sixty yards the lateral deflexion from wind is negligible; past this it may amount to three or four feet. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow
Although it is present in huge amounts in these plants, nobody knows what caffeine is for.
The very first day I discovered the moisture meter in the mixer was not working properly, giving an inconsistent mix and the cement weigh batcher was weighing inconsistent amounts for each batch. Undefined
A large amount of capital was required to transform forges into modern iron and steel industries, equip the shipyards to build steamships, and move from small workshops to modern factories.
High rises waste tremendous amounts of energy and probably strain sewage and other facilities. Matthew Yglesias » Density and Building Height
His boundless energy and enthusiasm were infectious and his pride in his family paramount. Times, Sunday Times
Much of this additional nitrogen is retained or denitrified in the watershed, but a substantial amount enters groundwater and rivers and eventually is delivered to estuaries and the ocean.
It's just that when you put it all together, it amounts to a manipulation.
So before they ship out, the Marines are undertaking what amounts to a massive deprogramming campaign for their own troops.
There is a vast amount of ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
All the territory of an administrative chiefdom is technically held by the paramount chief.
An arbitration tribunal from the International Chamber of Commerce ruled Cukurova Holding, owned by Turkish businessman Mehmet Karamehmet , must pay the amount, plus interest dating back to June 2007, after withdrawing from a deal to sell a stake in the company. TeliaSonera Wins Damages
The Barotse are the paramount tribe in the region of the Upper Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Everything is in the gray area now; every decision must take into account an infinite amount of variables.
I also agree that there's an incredible amount of camaraderie among fencers.
Several Cowboys, most notably cornerback Deion Sanders, are due to receive substantial amounts of money that year.
We're in the suburbs surrounded mostly by fields and open land so we don't get the same amount of dust.
Equal amounts of flour and sugar should be added to the mixture.
Bartenders will drink a shot, and then replace it with an equal amount of water.
The set-off clause precludes the withdrawals of amounts standing to the customer's credit as long as this liability is contingent.
One thing I really like about DVDs is the amount of extra material which is included in them.
Transistors, which next year will contain features measuring 45 nanometres, or billionths of a metre, have become so small that they leak substantial amounts of electricity.
How would this family prove it was the insurance company's incompetence that led to the lapsed life policy and thus claim the assured amount?
His total benefactions - including more than 2,800 Carnegie libraries - amounted to $350 million.
His Australian hosts piled on more pressure yesterday, saying that sweetheart deals that allowed corporations to dodge tax in countries where they made profits amounted to theft. Times, Sunday Times
Subsequently, the army enjoyed an increasing amount of autonomy from political control, and even from the military establishment.
A considerable amount of tax collection is now done, in effect, by casinos; rather than raise taxes to pay for services, legislatures legalize gambling and then take a rake-off from the profits earned by private casino companies. The Sack of Washington
Protective pads and headgear would be encouraged to reduce the amount of fatalities right off the bat.
This constraint would effectively limit the amount of vehicles that a firm could service. 2.
The consuming of large amounts of phenylalanine has also been linked to causing nerve damage. The Sun
Solutions attempted in piecemeal fashion, as we've seen thus far, would amount to constantly putting out recurring fires. State Bailouts? They've Already Begun
Five 80 gram servings of fruits and vegetables each day seems to be the amount needed for optimum protection.
If he has managed to get rid of all the bad news, amounting to £1.3bn of exceptionals, which led to the company reporting a net loss of £1.02 bn, then there should be room for considerable upside in the group's fortunes over the next year.
He rebuilds a lab, on the sly, that is humongous, an undertaking requiring great wealth and a greater amount of equipment and manpower. Teenage armor: A review of the new Iron Man cartoon | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
People are repulsed at the idea of limiting the amount of children someone can have, despite the fact that our schools, health care, and planet itself simply cannot support us.
The policy would set a minimum amount of tax payable on a pack. Times, Sunday Times
As water moves through soil and rock, it dissolves very small amounts of minerals and holds them in solution.
Two brothers differ by about half this amount. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
The Spanish population of New Spain eats too much, he writes, and this is bad for them because it "generates a large amount of excrements, which suffocate the natural heat [of the body]. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Even in 1935 they were being sent an ‘astonishing amount of illiterate and unintelligent writing’, but practised readers spent little time on it.
He says it amounts to a persuasive economic argument for a regular festival. Times, Sunday Times
The amount each player received was based on the number of appearances made throughout the season. The Sun
Aside from the sanctity of my goats and all I am happy to have coyotes, catamounts, bears and other preditors in the woods, they are hallmarks of a heathy ecosystem with all of its components in place. The Coyote--to Shoot or Not to Shoot. That is the Question.
Such aids amount to economic aggression.
On the River Darent, in Kent - which as recently as 1996 used to dry up in places during the summer, stranding and killing fish and other aquatic life - the amount taken from the river has been cut by 35m litres a day compared with 20 years ago, increasing river flows and so enabling much greater numbers of brown trout, pike and other fish to live in its waters. Rivers the healthiest in a generation due to stricter pollution controls
New products and production processes are transferred to the developing countries only after a substantial amount of time has lapsed.
The TV station has received a barrage of complaints about the amount of violence in the series.
Muddying the issue of how much pirated software is on the Internet is the tremendous amount of software legally available to download.
(If you are willing to postulate a matter-antimatter explosive, aka a positronium bomb, then P can increase by the maximal amount from 0 to e/3.) Dark Matter: Still Existing
But even with an infinite amount of money, aging could not be conquered.
It needs to be cherished and supported, even if this involves a certain amount of personal inconvenience.
Any reasonable scenario must include a sizable amount of new gas-fired plants. German U-turn Won't Change Gazprom's Direction
And despite the copious amounts of butter used to bake it, it doesn't feel overly greasy. The Sun
They were making the most tremendous amount of noise last night.
This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. What's the carbon footprint of ... a volcano?
A huge amount of energy was invested by D' Alema and his party in trying, by one means or another, to force this change through, in the hope that Berlusconi would find it to his advantage, too.
A hallway in a largish single-storey house is a big job, lots of doors and a not inconsiderable amount of wall.
Oh sure, the boxing was kind of fun to watch (as much as I hate to enjoy it … what can I say, I’m a fan of forms of gladiatorship, even when they are rife with disgusting amounts of - isms), and Hillary Swank is Hillary Swank. Million dollar baby « Love | Peace | Ohana
Equally uncertain is the amount of recoverable oil and gas.
The corporation is guaranteed this amount, and the investment banker takes the risk of selling issue.
Well, errm, not precisely, but we need to stand up to it and create a multipolar world, not to be confused with multilateralism, which is a way of using up large amounts of money to bleat with great self-satisfaction, achieving little. There is never any point to appeasement
Julie picked at the small amount of food she had put on her plate.
Consumer spending on sports-related items amounted to ￡9.75 billion.
Watching Nixon's henchmen come out of the woodwork to declare their moral indignation at the ethical lapses of Mark Felt was tantamount to watching Liza Minelli criticize someone else for being an an unstable boozehound.
When you do the calculations on the amount deposited its not a good return.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill
The tribe's land now amounts to around 50% of the total land area.
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Rates for boats using the pier were also announced, with the final amount differing from original discussions.
To start, pour a small amount of dry pigment forming a mound onto a nonporous slab surface, such as glass or marble; then, make an impression in the center of the mound and, into that, pour a small amount of linseed or other oil. Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints
For each CDN$0. 065 principal amount of Notes, each noteholder will also receive one share purchase warrant (the "Warrants") entitling the noteholder to purchase one common share of the Corporation for a period of five years from the closing at a price per share of CDN$0. 10. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
For the next three years until 2001, private capital outflow amounted to between $8 to 10 billion annually.
An increasing amount of forests along ridgetops in the front ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains is reducing the ability of some alpine butterflies to disperse among patches of suitable habitat.
She squirted herself a generous amount of shampoo and began lathering her hair with it.
They based their predictions on one million-acre feet a year deficit of the Colorado River, massive amounts of evaporation from the lake and the viscous effects of a warming world from climate change. Dr. Reese Halter: Global Warming, Drought and the Grim Reaper
The agent does not have to disclose the amount his client paid.
The same amount is paid regardless of the number of people that a carer looks after. Times, Sunday Times
The veil symbolizes the idea of modesty and conveys the lesson that however attractive physical appearances may be, the soul and character are paramount.
Total Capital Expenditures for 2009 are less than historical and current estimates for Maintenance and Obligatory Capital Expenditures which we define as the estimated amount of investment in capital projects and obligatory spending on existing facilities and operations needed to hold production approximately constant for the period. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
There was, of course, a vast amount of music in the U.S. in this period besides symphonic music, Lutheran hymnody, and Wagnerian opera.
I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! Mark Twain
Unless relationships are clearly defined and behaviours challenged, no amount of structural change will protect the autonomy of frontline services. Times, Sunday Times
Locals from Mountmellick are incensed by the amount of household rubbish that is being illegally dumped in areas of the town.
The most direct financial incentive to prevent rubbish is to charge people by the amount of rubbish they put out.
At least the State of California limits its total liability to a paltry $5K in exchange for a prohibitively expensive premium, that even if a person chose to insure herself against would not pay the bulldozers pushing the debris to one side or the other, as no amount of money makes these liabilities "insurable" to even the most profligage premium payer. Balkinization
Their quotes and epigrams take up a sometimes shocking amount of space in columns and essays.
It is however possible to compress the cell packs subsequent to their formation and prior to inserting them into their final container to expel at least a proportion of their electrolyte which will reduce the amount of electrolyte which needs to be gassed off in the finished cells.
Techies are used to spending an ungodly amount of time mining virtual coins in online games.
The pants were straight legged, so they didn't show any bony legs and yet at the bottom, they still showed the right amount of skin, with no bruising.
Fortunately, after some disagreement I was allowed (most graciously!) to pay off the amount in installments over the next 12 months.
Billionaires are usually fairly secretive about the exact amount that they're worth.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill
For what is a very common operation, it's taking me an uncommon amount of time to recover. Times, Sunday Times
Closely related in origin to manganese nodules are the ferromanganese incrustations found on exposed rocks of the mid-ocean ridge, seamounts, and other places in the ocean where bare rock is exposed.
This computer method calculates the amount of damaged tissue by comparing MRI signal strength between damaged and undamaged tissue.
The amount of money protected if your bank or building society collapses drops sharply. Times, Sunday Times
The company ended last year with a small amount of cash in the bank, which is an inefficient use of capital. Times, Sunday Times
Installation is difficult as you must remove door and trim a required amount off bottom.
If a certain amount of begrudgery is the unavoidable product of such a position of eminence, it is neither fair nor perceptive.
Gauss in 1801 was to take Euler's work much further and gives a considerable amount of work on modular arithmetic which amounts to a fair amount of theory of abelian groups.
Williamson suggests that assets with a high amount of specificity represent sunken costs that have little value outside a particular exchange relationship.
Or apparently go camping without toting ten pounds of coffee-making gear (including a frother for the proper amount of foam). Plastic Elimination Campaign: Kid's Dishes
Hossein Aimani, an owner of Paramount, said he uses the term osetra for baerii because "in the last few years that's what the market has done," adding that he might rethink his labeling. NYT > Home Page
But consumer confidence has plunged by the biggest amount for two years on fears over tax hikes and Government spending cuts. The Sun
In fact, it would put only a small amount of money into the hands of those who really need it.
The new 100% Proficiency scheme has also brought an added bonus - a rapid reduction in the amount of waste materials during training.
Yet, much of the music on it contains a considerable amount of pop, rock, and world music influence.
In the end the Company Commander and the Company Sergeant Major managed to obtain a box of compo rations after a certain amount of argument with the supply depot, who said the Battalion held such things for emergencies!
To do so, many of us have reduced the amount of beef we eat, and have substituted margarine for butter. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
Here is the power spectrum: amount of anisotropy as a function of angular scale (really multipole moment l), with large scales on the left and smaller scales on the right. WMAP results — cosmology makes sense!
Well, there are certainly opportunities because as we have talked in the past, we have many markets where we have less than what we called optimal amount of share, which is 10% in market. KeyCorp CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Transcript Call -- Seeking Alpha
A new patient came into the office recently and told me she picked me over my partners because of the sheer amount of material displayed under my generic bio information on our practice website.
The teeth of our distant ancestors can yield a surprising amount of evidence about their lives and deaths. Times, Sunday Times
The amount obtained by auctioning the paintings will be contributed to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund.
A small amount of urine drips constantly from your kidneys to your bladder through tubes called ureters.
The irritating lack of clarity about who holds what amount of debt has led to some ridiculous underpricing of risk. Times, Sunday Times
For future markets, conformation and a consistently high yield of saleable meat will be paramount.
His pulse increased and he began to sweat excess amounts.
You want to look at any philosophy that millions of people subscribe to, and some bad things are going to happen - but to my knowledge "godlessness" has really only been around for about 100 years, and in that amount of time its probably led to more murder, misery and mans 'inhumanity to man than all the other "isms" ever created. Sound Politics: Obsession Shown At Cedar Park
He should set up a monthly direct debit of an amount that he is happy to pay and add ad hoc single premiums. Times, Sunday Times
Government regulations mean you can let out a furnished room for a certain amount of tax-free income. The Sun
Most antidepressants -- including the commonly used Prozac and Zoloft -- work by increasing the amount of serotonin, a message-carrying brain chemical made deep in the middle of the brain by cells known as raphe neurons. Canada.com Top Stories
Other than releasing small amounts of oil from the Reserve for very limited short term climatic or pipeline disruptions, extortionist high oil prices that were risking a national economic calamity were never adequate cause to tap the SPR in this administration's reckoning. Raymond J. Learsy: Stop The Energy Department From Hiking Oil Prices By Reinstituting Purchases For The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Ten millilitres of pure methanol can cause blindness and 30 millilitres death, so it is just small amounts.
My mind boggles at the amount of money they spend on food.
Not just settings of the ordinary, but the copious amounts of plainchant needed to cover all the propers (the introit, gradual, alleluia, offertory, communion and other sentences, all of which change according to the day and festival).
I smoke a heroic amount of hash / grass as it is, so that's not the problem!
The amount of packaging in which many toys arrive is aggravating and ridiculous. » Such a Cute Little Carbon Emitter Strocel.com
However we adopt healthcare reform, it isn't going to save major amounts of money.
I get this itch after three months, that no amount of medicated talc can take away: My latest theory is related to the fact that I have rarely lived anywhere longer than two years.
Thus shall we show that loyalty to this government of freemen is a sacred and paramount obligation, to be thrown off only less easily than loyalty to God. God's Ways Unsearchable
Too many clubs seem to be spending ridiculous amounts based on projected incomes which are not just unrealistic but beyond the realms of fantasy.
You can even use a limited amount of starchy adjuncts - such as flaked maize, flaked oats or flaked barley FriendFeed - georgeh
What if I saw one of my old teachers and they found out their swotty student has amounted to naught?
He is getting an overwhelming amount of money by way of the pension; furthermore, this pension is tax free for this financial year.
There's only a minimal amount of risk involved.
To produce useful amounts of energy from fusion on earth, scientists must produce a plasma with the required temperature, density, and heat retention.
But they said the area continued to receive a smaller share of the cake than was warranted by the amount of crime committed in it.
This operation receives an input message with floating-point amount and string zip, and an output message with floating-point rate and integer tax.
This amount of money could be supplemented by a loan received from a bank - high interest, but easily accessible as a last option.
Yet during this prolonged period of low inflation for which Gordon likes to claim credit the maximum amount claimable has risen to £159,720. Archive 2008-06-01
Naturally, this meant a hefty amount of foreign travel.
We've saved a considerable amount of money.
Dolphin added: "The only pledge that we would preserve is higher funding for international development, not only because it is a relatively small amount of spending (although it is) but in recognition of the urgency of providing more funds to low-income countries badly hit by a financial crisis not of their making. Don't spare the NHS from cuts, says leftwing thinktank
So sought-after are high-ranking characters and the virtual trinkets that they amass that extraordinary amounts of real-world money are changing hands as they are traded.
However, water in the bilges, moving between the inner and outer skins as the ship rolled, did create a small amount of air movement in the lower deck cabins.
Browsing the shops is the main pastime: the stores offer rural knick-knacks and antiques as well as a fair amount of New Age wares such as quartz crystals, incense burners and Indian rugs.
Each payment should include an allocation of principal and interest amounts.
Season well and add a generous amount of olive oil. Times, Sunday Times
Next month the amount of material recycled should further increase, since charges for garbage pickup will double.
Since those temperatures generally amount to a few million degrees, fusion reactions are also known as thermonuclear reactions.
It amounts to a dark basement with shelving filled with film cans, reel-to-reel winders, thousands of press clippings and photos, stickers, flyers, and a tiny radio.
Zuhra Bahman, a consultant from Kabul, said that urging Taliban fighters to give up arms and join the government will not amount to the democratization of Afghanistan. Experts: Mideast Turmoil Underscores Need for Afghan Political Reform
In the bigger waters, maskalonge and, of course, any amount of pike and pickerel. The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa
Medicines also contain colourants, often in large amounts.
With the ink jet recording head, the relationship between the amount and the speed of ejected ink droplets can be optimized in accordance with the size of areas of the electro-thermal transducers.

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