Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] total " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of each accounting period ( calendar month ) the invoices are then add-listed to provide a separate total for the sub-division of each project . |
| 2 | Together with the Druze , the Sunnis and Shias comprised a Muslim total of 48 per cent . |
| 3 | Boycott 's 63 held the innings together , Gooch and Gower got a few , Botham walloped 37 off 39 balls and 208 seemed a reasonable total on a pitch helpful to bowlers . |
| 4 | As compared with a June 1990 total of 266,098 registered AIDs cases , the WHO estimated the actual number as nearer 700,000 , and predicted a cumulative total of between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 by 2000 . |
| 5 | The Americans finally assembled a combined total of 24,000 men . |
| 6 | Texas Instruments Inc had produced a cumulative total of over 70,000 SuperSparc , aka Viking , chips by the end of last year , the company told Unigram.X last week . |
| 7 | Presumably all this applies equally well to , to shops because I suppose you could link up the cash registers to some sort of stock control , so that you could almost keep a running total of what you , you have in stock as you erm punch the appropriate numbers up on the , on the till ? |
| 8 | Once this number of errors has been reported , LIFESPAN will stop writing error reports to the process log and will simply keep a cumulative total of the number of errors occurring . |
| 9 | This is part of a whistle-stop ‘ tour ’ of Europe , encompassing a grand total of three dates — all separated by several light years of van travel . |
| 10 | In the event , the Christie 's sale of the contents on 28 and 29 September realised a low total of £1,225,724 ( $2,121 729 ) with 12% unsold by value and the house has since sold for £1 million . |
| 11 | In Janet 's case , the success of her two latest albums , which sold a combined total of 14m copies , are no guarantee of future hits . |
| 12 | By the end of September 1990 , the network of IDS Advisers on Enterprise and Education had undertaken a cumulative total of 5,534 visits to employers to persuade them to offer work experience to school pupils and appropriate short-term placements for teachers . |
| 13 | We are delighted and thrilled with the enthusiasm and ingenuity you have displayed while producing a grand total of over £2,500 . |
| 14 | It proved a false hope for Merioneth as Brymbo 's Nigel Roberts ( 78 ) , Stuart Williams ( 35 ) and Mark Jones ( 20 not out ) teamed up with Chris Lloyd of Wrexham ( 63 ) to post a daunting total to Merioneth . |
| 15 | However 1 per cent of a very large and expanding GNP produces a significant total , making Japan the world 's ninth biggest military spender . |
| 16 | Our survey revealed a grand total of 2,193 cases of problem drug use known to the ten indicator agencies ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 17 | The second prevalence survey revealed a grand total of 1,372 cases of problem drug use known to the eight indicator agencies , which , after duplicates were eliminated , came down to 1,076 unique individual problem drug users ( see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 18 | The main service sites were at Kidderminster General Hospital and the Worcester County Infirmary , providing a combined total of 210 beds . |
| 19 | It aggregates a grand total of four 42MHz Power RISCs in a floor-standing tower and is pitched at technical users with large or complex applications , including computational fluid dynamics , finite element analysis and structural dynamics . |
| 20 | A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) . |
| 21 | Gilford 's success on the King 's Links , where he returned a nine-under-par total of 279 , earned him £62,500 and considerably strengthened his claim for a Ryder Cup place against the US in September . |
| 22 | Big Jimmy Hughes was Palace 's bulwark at centre-half throughout the decade 1910 to 1920 , and only the 1st World War prevented him from amassing a huge total of appearances for the club . |
| 23 | The Johnson Matthey contingent in this year 's Royston Fun Run raised a superb total of £2,000 and the four JM employees that entered this year 's London Marathon have raised a total of well over £1,500 . |
| 24 | He organised many other fund raising events during the last few months including a sponsored marathon scuba dive and raised a grand total of £2,000 towards his own travel and subsistence . |
| 25 | The Open Day held at Cresswell in August raised a magnificent total of £2,111 and a thoroughly good time was had by all ! |
| 26 | Impressively , plenty of you found around 1OO words in the four by four letter grid , but of ISD submitted a word-mungus total of 498 ! |
| 27 | With eight courses on offer you wo n't be finishing it in a hurry , and each course must be traversed in both directions , giving a grand total of sixteen levels . |
| 28 | Painstakingly Verity Lambert explained to her superiors the impracticality of a thirteen week , quarter-year season ; the four part cavemen story was in the can , the seven part Dalek serial was under way , and they were committed to running ‘ Marco Polo ’ , also seven episodes in length , giving a grand total of eighteen weeks in all . |
| 29 | Each of the 96 subjects did the experiment twice , giving a grand total of 192 repetitions of the experiment . |
| 30 | But the results of the best ‘ neutrino-catching ’ experiment so far carried out are perhaps a little worse than the expectations of the most depressed pessimist : in 1965 a team of scientists recorded a grand total of seven neutrinos in nine months ! |