mount up to
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The original judge said: "The mass of inconsistencies in all three accounts mount up to paint a wholly unreliable and inconsistent picture and one which as a result must be considered to lack credibility."
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2024
The amount that it would take to significantly improve the lives of these workers wouldn’t mount up to a rounding error in a quarter’s earnings.
From Forbes • Aug. 25, 2014
This says that, given enough opportunities, the probabilities of even very unlikely events can mount up to be almost certain.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2014
But on the day of reckoning, it was observed, that by some extraordinary arithmetical calculation, he made the interest mount up to an enormous sum: such, at least, was the popular report.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
He remained sunk in his armchair, with the letter on his knees, staring straight before him, overcome by poignant feelings that made the tears mount up to his eyes!
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. by Maupassant, Guy de
