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  • Amounting to a three-month delay in a payment that was originally due in September, the postponement added new pressure on Greece's public finances.

    Greek Leader Drops Referendum Plan Marcus Walker 2011

  • Amounting to 5.5 percent of current-year GDP, albeit spread over several years, the American Recovery and Restoration Act was the largest stimulus package in modern U.S. economic history.

    Putting the stimulus bill in perspective Ezra Klein 2010

  • Amounting to an estimated US$30 billion in oil revenues over a 38-year period, this plundering of resources has become progressively rooted in the institutionalisation of violence directed towards dissenting local groups.

    Violence as an instrument of governance 2009

  • Amounting to about 6% of its workforce, this would follow the reduction of some 6,000 workers at Lehman since June 2007, the Times says, noting that a Bloomberg count puts the number of jobs shed at securities firms this year at 101,000.

    Mr. Obama's Case 2008

  • ROMANS: Amounting, he says, to blaming the victim.

    CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2006 2006

  • Amounting to only $60,652 at the end of the first month's operation in the experimental offices, they increased to $679,310 by July, and now after

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • "Amounting as it does to treason, at a time when His Majesty's Government are embarrassed by internal unrest, your act can not be overlooked."

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • "Amounting as it does to treason, at a time when His Majesty's Government are embarrassed by internal unrest, your act can not be overlooked."

    Guns of the Gods Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Amounting to only $60,652 at the end of the first month's operation in the experimental offices, they increased to $679,310 by July, and now after 11 months of operation have reached a total of $11,000,000.

    State of the Union Address William H. Taft 1893

  • Amounting to little more than subterranean hiccups a few feet above sea level, such mini-states have long faced the threat of decimation through the ravages of climate change, but suddenly faced an immediate threat of inundation.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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