Example sentences of "which amounted to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brothers found that on average over the six months they had incurred costs for advertising , petrol etc. which amounted to £10 for each bed sold . |
| 2 | Introducing a clause to the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill , he said that the subsidy , which amounted to £4.2 million last year , would be phased out between now and 1996 . |
| 3 | The US environmental think-tank recommends the abolition of government subsidies , which amounted to $120 billion last year , and a 50 per cent reduction in meat consumption in the wealthier nations . |
| 4 | Market estimates suggest that approximately three quarters of secondary market turnover in dollar eurobonds ( which amounted to $358 billion in the first half of 1989 ) occurs in London . |
| 5 | The unenclosed wastes in Epping Forest were consequently reduced from 12,000 acres in 1777 to 3,500 acres in 1871 , by illegal enclosures by the lords of the forest manors , and by sale of Crown rights by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests which amounted to disafforestment . |
| 6 | What seems to emerge is that Iraq 's foreign-exchange reserves , which amounted to $20 billion in 1980 , had reached $30 billion the following year . |
| 7 | A bank overdraft which amounted to £6,500 on 31 December 1991 . |
| 8 | It should also be noted that " credit " is available for earlier dispositions which are associated operations which amounted to transfers of value except where the disposition was made to a spouse . |
| 9 | This substantial return to profitability was achieved despite losses arising from flood damage in the Perth and Tayside region in the first quarter which amounted to $13m and the terrorist explosion in the City of London which cost $10m , net of reinsurance . |