Example sentences of "amount to [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it would be unwise to rely on the initiatives of local authorities alone , because of the severe financial restrictions under which they operate ( I found out today for example that Edinburgh District Council 's ENTIRE budget for maintainance of paths and bridleways amounts to only £5,000 per year ) , but also because many routes of interest to cyclists coincide with trunk road routes , which are D o T responsibility . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , we have nearly 2,000 CTC members in Scotland and assuming an average of around £20 per member , this amounts to almost £40,000 of income , of which our request for £750 seems modest in the extreme , particularly since we now pay the subscriptions I mentioned . |
| 3 | In the ensuing months B. & C. provided further sums amounting to approximately £117m. for Atlantic . |
| 4 | She is now unable to work and receives benefits , including invalidity benefit , amounting to approximately £90.00 per week . |
| 5 | People who paid rates amounting to only £200 on a house now have to pay £1 , 200 in poll tax . |
| 6 | This means that tax evasion is depriving the state — and the people who benefit from what the state can do for them , whether it is building better roads and hospitals or cleaning the seashore or guarding the frontiers — of a sum amounting to about 10% of the current official national income . |
| 7 | It will do little to end the real problem , that of a heavily protected EC market in which surplus production is encouraged by vast subsidies , which amount to almost 60% of the EC budget . |
| 8 | They have been told that their claim may only amount to around £11,000 of their £15,000 as capital gains tax is likely to be deducted from the total . |
| 9 | With five main players dividing up the RISC market , RISC processors still amount to only 5% of the overall volumes shipped , with Intel taking the rest . |
| 10 | With five main players dividing up the RISC market , RISC processors still amount to only 5% of the overall volumes shipped , with Intel taking the rest . |
| 11 | Select committee chairman Gareth Wardell said the authority 's annual budget of £2.81m amounted to just 98p per head of the Welsh population . |
| 12 | Although chronic diarrhoea ( defined by them as greater than 21 days duration ) occurred most frequently in this age group , this amounted to only 6% of cases — that is , 94% had diarrhoea which lasted for less than 21 days . |
| 13 | State subsidy amounted to almost £1.1bn in the 12 months to 31 March , up from £700m the previous year . |
| 14 | Compaq Computer Corp says it expects its move into direct sales to generate up to 10% of its US revenues this year , and may be expanded to some foreign markets later this year : total US sales amounted to about $1,700m in 1992 , Compaq said . |
| 15 | In the past all Q.T 's received a training which was heavily subsidised by the Society — in to-day 's terms this amounted to about £200 per person for each year of training . |
| 16 | The subsidies will amount to approximately £180 per car , and will be implemented by temporary exemption from automobile tax . |