amount to

Example Sentences

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Taken together, the changes amount to a significant reset for the Oscars, which have seen their audience decline from more than 40 million viewers in the late 1990s to 17.9 million this year, down 9% from the previous year.

From Los Angeles Times

If you’re overly concerned about short-term fluctuations, you could employ a dollar-cost-averaging strategy, where you divide the amount to be invested in vehicles — be they Treasuries or CDs — into equal-size contributions and then invest them over a longer period of time.

From MarketWatch

Treasury officials are understood to be working with NS&I to determine the exact amount to be given to customers.

From BBC

Private credit firms have more flexibility than banks, in helping borrowers work through rough stretches, and like its peers, Ares allows some borrowers to satisfy interest requirements with noncash “payments-in-kind,” that effectively add the interest amount to the loan balance.

From Barron's

She wrote: "A system of work relying on a handwritten menu being checked by one individual carer before distributing meals is not sufficiently robust and I consider it to amount to a defect in the system of work."

From BBC