Usage examples of "amount" in English with translation to French

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Agriculture consumes a great amount of water. L'agriculture consomme une grande quantité d'eau.
His debts amount to a considerable sum. Ses dettes s'élèvent à une somme considérable.
What is the total amount of money you spent? Quel est le montant total d'argent que tu as dépensé ?
I've reduced the amount of meat I eat. J'ai diminué la quantité de viande que je mange.
Our total debts amount to ten thousand dollars. Notre dette totale s'élève à 10.000 dollars.
The amount will go up in the case of recidivism. Le montant grimpera en cas de récidive.
Does the amount of rain affect the growth of crops? Est-ce que la quantité des précipitations influence la croissance des cultures ?
Call options give the right to buy a security for a certain amount, called the strike price, by a given date. Puts convey the right to sell. Les options d'achat donnent le droit d'acheter un titre à un certain montant, appelé prix d'exercice, à une date donnée. Celles de vente, donnent le droit de vendre.
You will be paid according to the amount of work you do. Vous serez payé en fonction de la quantité de travail que vous fournirez.
The amount of time you spend practicing the trumpet is up to you. La quantité de temps que tu consacres à pratiquer la trompette est à ta discrétion.
I will marshal a fair amount of scientific data to support my argument. Je rassemblerai une bonne quantité de données scientifiques pour corroborer ma thèse.
In these two or three years, he acquired a large amount of wealth. Lors de ces deux ou trois années, il acquit une grande quantité de richesses.
You get paid in proportion to the amount of the work you do. Vous êtes payé proportionnellement à la quantité de travail fourni.
A camel can store a large amount of water in the hump on its back. Un chameau peut stocker une grande quantité d'eau dans la bosse de son dos.
If a very large amount of memory is installed, an 'insufficient memory' error message is displayed. Si une très grande quantité de mémoire est installée, un message d'erreur «mémoire insuffisante» apparaîtra à l'écran.
For what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? Car qu'est la quantité de toutes ses prières, sinon une tentative de faire changer d'avis au Tout-Puissant pour qu'il agisse autrement qu'il ne fait ?
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. Le mariage est pour les femmes l'état le plus commun, et la quantité de relations sexuelles non-sollicitées subies par les femmes est probablement plus grande à l'intérieur du mariage que dans la prostitution.
Large amounts of timber are used in paper making. De grosses quantités de bois sont employées dans la fabrication du papier.
The loss amounts to a million dollars. La perte s'élève à un million de dollars.
It is a term used to describe the warming of the earth due to increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. C'est un vocable utilisé pour décrire le réchauffement de la Terre, dû à des quantités croissantes de dioxyde de carbone dans l'atmosphère.
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