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Example sentences for "would amount"

  • But I do not think the whole number sent would amount to two thousand, and being principally men, eaten up with disease, they married seldom and propagated little.

  • Of this, it is thought possible as much might be borrowed as would amount to a million of pounds lawful money.

  • Were we to charge all this to the Algerine war, it would amount to little more than we must pay, if we buy peace.

  • Therefore it is, that they look with earnest concern on the attempt now making by the South, to do, what, in the view of multitudes of our citizens, would amount to good cause for the separation of the free from the slave states.

  • This in forty-two years, the eight being subtracted from the fifty, would amount to just six years.

  • This in forty-two years, the eight being subtracted from the fifty, would amount to just six years.

  • This in forty-two years, (the eight being subtracted from the fifty) would amount to just six years.

  • The inquiry resulted in the discovery of syphilis in such a proportion of women as would amount to an aggregate of two thousand on the total number of public prostitutes.

  • A tax may be laid in the mean time; but it is limited, otherwise Congress might lay such a tax as would amount to a prohibition.

  • They might lay such heavy taxes on slaves, as would amount to emancipation; and then the Southern States would be the only sufferers.

  • This at fifty cents per bushel, which was all that it was worth when I was there, would amount to twelve and a half cents per week for board per head.

  • Mr. Horner said: "I have made an estimate of the loss a mill would sustain from working eleven hours a day only instead of twelve, and I find it would amount to L850 per annum.

  • Do you think it would amount to two-thirds?

  • The Pennsylvania railroad were not prepared to run these trains, and they knew what the riot was, and what it would amount to more than we did.

  • He did not think it would amount to anything, and said that the presence of a few men would stop the whole thing.

  • But the defence of the Western Territory was to require six thousand men; and these, with the ten thousand to be raised by this bill, would amount, in the whole, to sixteen thousand men.

  • I do not think five thousand dollars are sufficient; I would allow him a larger sum, which allowance, per diem, would amount to what would be fully adequate.

  • Eighty thousand dollars' worth of cigars, it was estimated, were consumed in the city of New York in 1810; at that rate the present annual consumption would amount to more than two hundred thousand dollars.

  • One witness before the committee stated that there would be no deficiency; another said it would be small; while Lord Ashburton declared that it would amount to a sacrifice of the whole revenue of the post-office.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cette heure; great girl; not mistaken; would accompany; would advise; would also; would consent; would enable; would ever; would form; would have been difficult; would have been the; would have given anything; would hear; would keep; would probably; would propose; would prove; would remain; would require; would result; would send; would speak; would take; would thou; would undertake