These efforts, however, never amounted to anything more than a handful of sketches, which were later used in the composition of Siegfried.

Merrill Lynch's efforts amounted to an 18.7 percent share of the American market.

The Mayor said the efforts amounted to a 32 percent reduction in fireworks-related injuries, including the loss of fingers and hands.

By the end of August 2009, Chin's fund-raising efforts amounted to more than $116,000, and she also qualified for $88,550 in public funding.

"If the total effort amounted to walking a mile, then they came a good half mile."

Because of this, the narrator's private effort to impose order on a wide array of losses amounts to a political stance in itself.

All our efforts of the past three days have amounted to zero results.

Any effort to provide nutritious lunches amounts to nothing if children won't eat them.

So far, my efforts to save our backs hadn't amounted to much.

And he said his efforts to settle on language the Administartion would accept amounted to an 18-mointh "rainbow-chasing operation."