Collocations for "amount"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "amount" in context.
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amount
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [large, small, certain, precise, considerable] amount (of)
- [large] amounts (of)
- a [large] amount of [money, effort]
- a [large] enough amount
- the [principle, estimated, total, initial, final] amount
- a [surprising, disappointing] amount
- an [unexpected, overwhelming, astonishing] amount (of)
- [will have, would like] (just) a small amount
- [never, don't] carry a large amount of [money, cash]
- is only a limited amount (of)
- gave a [minimal, considerable] amount of [time, effort] (to)
- [met, offered, encountered] a great amount of resistance
- huge amounts (of drugs) were [found, seized, burned, destroyed]
- wouldn't believe the amount of [money, time, effort] that [it took, I wasted]
- what is the total amount?
- came to an amount of [$400]
- no amount of money would [change my mind, convince me]
- no amount of [money, talk, coercion, intimidation] will make me [run away, give up, withdraw]
- can [give, pay, donate, offer, take] any amount you [like, want]
- add it in [large, small] amounts
- the total amount [due, to pay, paid, outstanding]
- the amount may not exceed [$40]
- [might, could, will] amount to [nothing, something]
- [damages, taxes, costs, income, expenses, sales] amounted to
- amounted to [over, almost, exactly] [$1000]
- amounting at [times, present] to
- amounting on average to
- not expected to amount to [much, anything, more than]
- he will never amount to anything
'amount' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
about
- absolute
- account
- actual
- add
- adequate
- advisory
- aggregate
- amazing
- apply
- appropriate
- average
- bid
- cap
- certain
- clarity
- considerable
- consume
- consumption
- conversion
- correct
- corresponding
- crazy
- criticism
- cumulative
- daring
- daunting
- debit
- decent
- deceptive
- decrease
- deduct
- default
- definite
- deposit
- determine
- deviation
- diagram
- difficulty
- dimple
- discard
- dose
- double
- download
- drizzle
- endless
- enormous
- entail
- enter
- equal