phrasal verb · neutral
run to
/rʌn tuː/RUN·to
task2task1speaking
amount to; reach a particular total
Examples
“The repairs ran to nearly £2,000.”
“The bill ran to more than we expected.”
“The festival usually runs to three days.”
Band 8 sentence
“Including hidden fees, the renovation costs ran to nearly $15,000, which challenged the initial budget.”
Collocations
- run to £/dollars/euros
- run to several hundred pages
Word family
run to phrasal verbran to pastrunning to gerund
Common mistakes
cost→run to
add up to→run to
Say it for a higher band
5cost→6amount to→7+run to
Synonyms
amount to
come to
Easily confused
amount to
“The total amounted to $1,200.”
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