Good words do not last long until they amount to something.

Or will not help, which amounts to the same thing.

The difference amounts to more than $300 million a year.

Together they amount to a pocket history of 20th-century art.

The total area of the building amounts to 205,000 m2.

This amounts to a 79.5 percent increase over the period.

"The position in which I find myself" amounts to more of the same.

So, what I've given your daughter amounts to a complete reading.

The figure amounts to 28 percent of the department's $87 million budget for 1991.

For the individual this risk amounts to 1 in 50,000.