Amount

//əˈmaʊnt//

"Amount" in a Sentence (21 examples)

Brian repeatedly told Chris that he owed him a pretty large amount of money.

You'll be paid according to the amount of work you do.

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.

Regardless of the amount, Brian wants the correct, entire amount by next week.

Corporations are downsizing and reducing the amount of profits they put back into R&D.

Our total debts amount to ten thousand dollars.

Fruit trees require a large amount of space in which to grow.

What an incredible amount of work he has done!

Does the amount of rain affect the growth of crops?

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The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.

Pour a small amount of water into the dish.

The dogs need different amounts of food.

The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.

The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.

The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change.

He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.

His response amounted to gross insubordination.

It was, however, J.R.R. Tolkien who pointed out the close relationship in language as well as spelling, almost amounting to identity, between the Corpus MS of the Ancrene Riwle (A) and the Bodley MS of the Katherine Group (B).

"The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."

So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.

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