| Her ministerial appointments amounted to only eight women, only one of whom rose higher than the ranks of junior minister. |
| His deferred payments over the years amounted to loans to the New York Stock Exchange for which he could reasonably assume to be compensated. |
| Seemingly every move he's made in recent months has been captured and archived in what has amounted to a lifecast. |
| The evidence amounted to an ambitious but authoritatively informed review of the potential of and need for company law reform. |
| The detail of what amounted to those reasonable precautions I have rehearsed already to your Honours. |
| But even in that banner year, Apple's creative energy hasn't amounted to very much in financial terms. |
