Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: amounts
IPA transcription: [əm'aʊnts]
Pronunciations of amounts
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Usage examples
  • We can judge of amounts...."
  • They say that hereafter there will be no ascertaining what the spoil really amounts to."
  • This residual discrepancy, when every known cause has been allowed for, amounts to about one hour.
  • In effect, Americans were now licensed by Great Britain to trade in certain commodities and in certain amounts with neutral countries.
  • The government of Trinidad has leased the asphalt lake to an American company and the income amounts to nearly a quarter of a million dollars per year.
  • The claim to political liberty amounts, as a rule, to no more than the claim of a man to live in a parish without observing sanitary precautions or paying rates because he had an excellent great-grandfather.
  • "Considering the enormous amounts of supplies carried; the scope, quantity, and quality of the safety devices employed; it is improbable that we are the first survivors of a subspace catastrophe to set course for a planet."
  • On the next day it would come up two instants late by reason of the previous loss; but it also loses another instant during the course of the second day, and so the total lateness by the end of that day amounts to three instants.
  • First, therefore, they mention how much the captain is to have for his ship; next, the salary of the carpenter, or shipwright, who careened, mended, and rigged the vessel: this commonly amounts to one hundred or one hundred and fifty pieces of eight, according to the agreement.
  • To see him at work on the stamps, with the relish of an artist, touching them like pictures, looking at them sideways, taking weighty notes of dates and amounts in his pocket-book, and contemplating them when finished, with a high sense of their precious value, was a sight indeed.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Neuschwanstein Castle, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Zinc, License CC BY-SA 4.0