Amounting

Examples

• But now his pity, with his life, was wearing thin, and the dread almost amounting to horror, was rising into being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I was going to say that when I listened that morning, I listened with hadmiration amounting to haw. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In 1812 a great mass of armies, amounting altogether to 600,000 men, began to move towards Russia under the supreme command of the new emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When she had gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a sort of genteel platoon-exercise, she withdrew. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The revolution of 1688 having seriously interrupted the art in England, that country imported paper from Holland during that period amounting to ￡100,000. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They were subjected, indeed, to a small poundage duty, amounting only to threepence in the hundred weight, upon their re-exportation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• During November, 1883, a little over one year after the station was started, bills for lighting amounting to over $9000 were collected. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I experienced a sudden fit of rage almost amounting to madness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• There was a trouble on his brow amounting almost to agony. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I removed them all, amounting to several ounces. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As a very natural consequence of such development, the company by 1902 had 420 miles of underground system supplying installation amounting to 1,928,090 fifty-watt equivalents. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Associates in this scheme were presently found amounting to thirty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I presented him an inventory of a little printing-house, amounting by my computation to about one hundred pounds sterling. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I provided, and sent down by the Norwood coach the night before, a delicate little hamper, amounting in itself, I thought, almost to a declaration. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In 1898 the output of this one factory for the year was 74,000 self-binding harvesters, 107,000 mowers, 9,000 corn harvesters, and 10,000 reapers, amounting to 200,000 machines. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In this case, the rent of the landlord, instead of amounting to a half, or five-tenths of the whole produce, will amount only to four-tenths of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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