Example sentences of "[verb] a total [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These records involve a total of about 120 individuals and the species is now much scarcer than the Slavonian Grebe , although des Forges and Harber recorded approximately equal numbers of each species . |
| 2 | RECENTLY , 12 WOMEN who accused Barclays Bank of sex discrimination for forcing them to retire at 60 have won a total of £160,000 , and their jobs back . |
| 3 | However , charges subsequently set by individual local councils were almost without exception in excess of this level , and on March 21 Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that the average actual charge for England had turned out to be £363 ; he blamed this excess principally on the actions of Labour controlled councils ( and announcements on April 3 and 10 listed a total of 21 local authorities which were to be " capped " — i.e. their expenditure limited to a level determined by the central government ) . |
| 4 | Greater Glasgow hospitals provide a total of more than 15,000 meals a day . |
| 5 | Garling entered a total of sixteen drawings for the competition , omitting the block plan , but showing the two offices separated by a wide street . |
| 6 | For example , last year alone , the University earned a total of four point nine million pounds from research grants and contracts , a figure which has risen despite the recession . |
| 7 | From December 1991 to June 1992 work was carried out on ‘ DRD by Red Lake Seaplane Service along with local volunteers , who together logged a total of over 1,700 man hours of restorative work on the veteran floatplane . |
| 8 | On the size of the European Parliament , member states were from 1994 to be allocated seats as follows : Belgium 25 ( currently 24 ) ; Denmark 16 ( 16 ) ; France 87 ( 81 ) ; Germany 99 ( 81 ) ; Greece 25 ( 24 ) ; Ireland 15 ( 15 ) ; Italy 87 ( 81 ) ; Luxembourg 6 ( 6 ) ; Netherlands 31 ( 25 ) ; Portugal 25 ( 24 ) ; Spain 64 ( 60 ) ; United Kingdom 87 ( 81 ) , representing a total of 567 seats ( 518 previously ) . |
| 9 | Swiss foods manufacturing giant Nestle SA has signed a worldwide agreement with Microsoft Corp to standardise its software on Windows : the contract covers a total of 30,000 users and will take a number of months to implement , but no financial terms were available ; software from WordPerfect Corp , Ashton-Tate Corp 's Multimate and Lotus Development Corp 's Lotus 1-2-3 will be replaced with Word 2.0 for Windows and Excel 4.0 ; Nestle will also use Microsoft Mail 3.0 , Microsoft Project 3.0 , Microsoft PowerPoint 3.0 , and LAN Manager 2.2 will be the network operating system . |
| 10 | At least half a crowd of 1,000 were English holidaymakers but most of Colombo 's cricket fans are currently hooked on a series of college matches in the city which over three days have attracted a total of 20,000 spectators at three venues . |
| 11 | The tournament , organised by Porthmadog FC , had attracted a total of 20 entries and lasted three weeks with a battery of games at The Traeth . |
| 12 | At least half a crowd of 1,000 were English holidaymakers but most of Colombo 's cricket fans are currently hooked on a series of college matches in the city which over three days have attracted a total of 20,000 spectators at three venues . |
| 13 | The exhibition will include a total of 250 works . |
| 14 | When finished the index will include a total of about 300,000 separate items representing some 8-12 million words . |
| 15 | To attain champion status , the dog or bitch must win a total of fifteen points under at least three different judges . |
| 16 | The joint venture brings together businesses with combined sales of £369 million — £238 million from Courtaulds — employing a total of 2,650 people at factories in . |
| 17 | In 1984/5 local authorities in England incurred a total of 39.6bn revenue account expenditure . |
| 18 | Between 1878 and 1880 , at the height of Camberwell 's feverish building activity , some 416 firms or individual builders erected a total of 5,670 houses . |
| 19 | Perth Sheriff Court was told that yesterday when David Herschell , 48 , of Ancaster Lane , Comrie , admitted committing breaches of the peace on a number of occasions by inducing a total of 13 kilted boys aged between five and 16 to expose themselves while posing for his camera . |
| 20 | The Scottish work tracked 250 individual family members and found a total of 75 cases of breast cancer and ten of ovarian cancer . |
| 21 | It has been calculated that Betty , singled handedly moved a total of 40,500 tonnes . |
| 22 | The Donald Morris Gallery of Detroit and New York reported a total of fifteen sales ‘ of five or six figures ’ by such artists as Aristide Maillol and Alexander Calder , and Peter Findlay sold at least two big ticket works by Mary Cassatt and Emil Nolde . |
| 23 | The Group has added a total of 69 mmboe as a result of our ongoing exploration appraisal and development activities . |
| 24 | Nothing would equal that moment and although Richard did not fish every day , he caught a total of 24 fish of various types , during his holiday . |
| 25 | Primitive Methodists , the most rural of the four leading denominations , built a total of 660 chapels between 1890 and 1901 and the average cost was £1 , 151. |
| 26 | Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and other Gulf states had so far promised to provide a total of $9,500 million . |
| 27 | The reshuffle was effective from Oct. 2 and involved a total of 642 officers . |
| 28 | Scarborough magistrates were told that the alleged offences involved a total of £803,000 . |
| 29 | She describes the construction , siting and use of the Malaise , light and pitfall traps with which she has caught a total of more than 300 species of Lepidoptera , more then 90 species of hoverflies , 46 species of bees , 40 of wasps , and more than 500 species of ichneumonids , eight of which were previously unknown in |
| 30 | Profitt , Michael Cook , 18 , Adrian Sinclair , 19 , and Lee Scrivens , 19 , all from Birmingham , admitted theft charges ; another six City supporters were also remanded in custody or on bail , and 23 were fined a total of £8,600 for admitting charges arising from a weekend in the Lancashire resort which a Football Association inquiry may punish by banning City supporters from remaining away games ; all their away matches were made all-ticket for an indefinite period after trouble last season at Crystal Palace . |