amount vs tell time

amount

verb
  • To total or evaluate. 

  • To be the same as or equivalent to. 

noun
  • The number (the sum) of elements in a set. 

  • A quantity or volume. 

  • The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English). 

tell time

verb
  • to measure time, to determine the current time 

  • to read the time as displayed on a clock 

How often have the words amount and tell time occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )