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Definition of Amounted
1. amount [v] - See also: amount
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amounted
Literary usage of Amounted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Collectively their funds at this time amounted to a capital of £96378 (about ...
In 1565 there were five, whose joint salaries amounted only to about $355 ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1865)
"The number amounted to so many, that they exceed eighteen hundred sheets ofpaper.
But what is the most wonderful of all that can be said on the subject, ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"The population of the Bermudas, according to a census taken this year, amounted
to 10300, of whom 4500 were Whites. In the Bermudas, in September, ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"But the contract, taken by itself, amounted to no more than an agreement by the
defendant to purchase, at a fixed price, all the watch chains, not exceeding ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"The maximum increase in the electrical conductivity of the soil solution, taking
the initial value ae a basis of comparison, amounted to about 21 per cent. ..."
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