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amount

A total of things; a measure of how much. Pour a small amount of water into the dish. The full effect or value.

amount

To add. To develop into; to become. What will your life amount to? Will you become successful?

amount

(= sum) a quantity of money he borrowed a large sum the amount he had in cash was insufficient the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion an adequate amount of food for four people (= measure) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify be tantamount or equivalent to Her action amounted to a rebellion (= sum) a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers (= come) develop into This idea will never amount to anything nothing came of his grandiose plans (= number, add up, come) add up in number or quantity The bills amounted to $2,000 The bill came to $2,000

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Harvard scientists have measured the amount of male hormone in the saliva of 58 single and married men with or without children.
Our total debts amount to ten thousand dollars.
Does the amount of rain affect the growth of crops?
The amount of paper produced by a country is closely related to its cultural standards.
How many kilograms does it amount to?
The road is inadequate for the amount of traffic which it carries.
Mr Johnson was concerned about the amount of money that was being lost because of careless management.
We need a large amount of money for this project.
This amount includes tax.
Your plan requires a large amount of money.
There is a certain amount of truth in what he's saying.
What is the total amount?
Damages from the flood amount to ten million dollars.
We will pay you according to the amount of work you do.
As for the air, there is always some moisture in the atmosphere, but when the amount increases a great deal, it affects the light waves.
Fruit trees require a large amount of space in which to grow.
What an incredible amount of work he has done!
A camel can store a large amount of water in the hump on its back.
If an oversight is the reason why you have not paid, please send us the amount due, and let us solve the problem immediately.
How are you going to spend such a large amount of money?
Here the wages are paid in proportion to the amount of work done.
That amount of food will last them for a week.

Movie subtitles

You sure have studied it a lot in such a short amount of time.
The amount of land that a country controls.
When this planet passes in front of the star, it blocks out a tiny fraction of the light, dimming the star by a very small amount.
Wherever there's liquid water - no matter the amount of light, the temperature, the acidity - life thrives.
Small amount.
Again, small amount.suctioned.
She analyzed Mr. Dubois's stomach emissions and found that, along with a minuscule amount of strychnine, there was a large quantity of ipecac.
Just the right amount of curl and a subtle balayage.
To that end, the Steinem Publishing Group is offering what we consider an appropriate amount, in exchange for Ms. Stanley agreeing not to pursue the matter further.
Vandeuvres thinks that stealing Nana from her fancy man will require a large amount of gold.
So 10 grand was the amount you gave the gal?
It's not a definite amount.
I can stand a certain amount, but no more.
Well, I'm afraid we'll have to mail you the amount of the check.
But there is so much hydrogen in the Universe that adding all those tiny chances, a detectable amount of radiation should be produced.
Whatever the case, it appears that all of them wield a significant amount of social clout.
No amount of inadequate guidance can save them from their inevitable annihilation.
They spent a considerable amount to ensure you had an excellent education.
So ten grand was the amount you gave the gal?
Love without faith, like religion without faith, doesnt amount to very much.
Well don't you mind, Mother Peep I'll get the full amount from the toy maker.
Listen, when the toy maker finds out that Barnaby's up to his old tricks again he'll give me the full amount without any problem.
Energetic. resourceful. and with any amount of patience.
The amount's of no matter.
I always knew that boy would amount to something.
If you put out the same amount of fingers that I do, you win.
And if you don't put out the same amount of fingers, you lose.
If I grab and marry Sejin Group's daughter or etc., the lotto prize amount?
A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF NERVES LOOKS REAL.
No amount of trauma to Neal's nuts - will keep her from divorcing me. - Oh, my God.
I was wondering if I could pay you an exorbitant amount of money to move your wedding date.
And I'll play you freeze out for the whole amount, pay after each hand.
Uh-huh. But it didn't amount to much.
You are going to receive an amount of money.
For that amount you can buy a field with old oaks, a trout river, and a mansion.
Don't forget to mention the amount we're suing for.
We must do an immense amount of development in these countries.
If it weighs more than a just amount I'll share it with those who have less.
But it's a large amount of money.
But it's about a large amount of money.
However, oddly enough, they are trying to write it off this a large amount of money.

News and current affairs

One is that they are very costly; or, more accurately, the price charged for them is very high, though the cost of producing them is but a fraction of that amount.
Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
In this, too, it has not really been successful, despite the huge amount of money that it put on the table.
There has been a huge amount of research into the ways that humans cause climate change, and how we can reduce it.
One prescription that is bandied about with increasing frequency certainly sounds sensible: the world should drastically cut the amount of greenhouse gases that it pumps into the atmosphere each day.
Profits for drug traffickers downstream will be almost 20 times that amount.
Accounting for a reduction of 50 Mt of CO2 per year, America's 30,000 wind turbines reduce emissions by just one-tenth the amount that natural gas does.
The purchases in Africa alone amount to an area of agricultural land the size of Kenya.
Predatory lenders went further, offering negative amortization loans, so the amount owed went up year after year.
CEOs who were once paid around 30 times what their average workers earned now make around 230 times that amount.
This stance - suggested by America's opposition to granting Palestine observer-state status at the United Nations - would amount to an admission by the US that it has given up on the creation of two states in the Middle East.
But no amount of lofty rhetoric can substitute for the reforms outlined here - or obviate the need for them.
The best evidence suggests that Americans watch more than five hours per day of television on average - a staggering amount, given that several hours more are spent in front of other video-streaming devices.
Still, with the amount of real resources transferred to their governments already high, Europeans might balk at a further increase.
No amount of money will undo the damage done.
But no one has so far argued that the cost of damage caused to the development prospects of poor countries and regions is less than the amount of compensation being offered to cover adjustment costs.
If that trade gap persists, Greece will have to borrow the full amount from foreign lenders every year in the future, even if the post-default budget deficits could be financed by borrowing at home.
No amount of increased American military effort is likely to offset the resulting lack of progress in weakening extremists in both countries.
Debt exceeding that amount would be left to the responsibility of the member states.
Global deposits of methane clathrate contain more than twice the amount of energy of all known fossil fuels, and it can burn cleanly.
By the end of the decade, the US will have to pay an amount equivalent to more than one-third of the revenue from personal-income taxes just to pay the interest on the national debt.
The US alone imports 1.5 million barrels a day from West Africa, the same amount it imports from Saudi Arabia.
Where the atheist assault is often correct is in pinpointing the amount of harm frequently done in our world by such fundamentalists.
As a result, most working individuals reduced the amount that they saved for their retirement, and retirees were able to increase their spending.
Half a trillion dollars was committed to the war in Iraq, an amount roughly equal to the sponsorship of all basic research for the last thousand years.
That will not be easy; in fact, it could amount to trying to square a circle.
But the new measures ultimately amount to more of the same: a fragmented policy approach that will prove inadequate to solve Afghanistan's fundamental economic problems.

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