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

Drawing their cloaks closer around them, the young ladies mount up to the poop-deck, and stand resting their hands on the taffrail.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne