Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] a total [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 2 | In mid-September 1989 a total of 71 Penans , a nomadic Sarawak tribespeople , were arrested , of whom 63 were detained for disrupting logging operations [ for disruption in 1987 of commercial logging operations in Sarawak by Penans and other Dayak tribespeople see pp. 35460 ; 36250 ] . |
| 3 | According to the Agriculture Ministry , since BSE was first identified in May 1986 a total of 13,849 cases had been confirmed in Britain as of May 23 , 1990 , and another 1,000 over the next four weeks ; the disease was made notifiable throughout the EC on April 1 , and the Republic of Ireland had 18 notified cases . |
| 4 | Ahead of the vote for Supreme Soviet Chairman scheduled for May 26 a total of 13 candidates were formally nominated , including Yeltsin and Vlasov , but on May 25 Vlasov unexpectedly withdrew his candidacy , as did all but three of the nominees . |
| 5 | From January 1989 to January 1991 a total of 146 patients underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for choledocholithiasis . |
| 6 | By May 25 a total of eight political parties had been recognized , while the following day , 16 of the country 's 21 political parties ( recognized and unrecognized ) were reported to have combined to form the National Co-ordination of the Opposition ( CNO ) . |
| 7 | According to a report on the ( West Beirut-based ) Radio Lebanon on Sept. 9 a total of 78 people had died in the fighting , and a further 240 had been injured . |
| 8 | Between Sept. 2 and Sept. 14 a total of 125 bodies were removed from plot 29 ( Patio 29 ) in the general cemetery in Santiago . |
| 9 | As of May 20 a total of 6,700 Vietnamese boat people had arrived in Hong Kong since January ( as compared with 6,600 for the whole of 1990 ) , and the arrival of 387 on May 7 was the highest recorded daily influx since 1989 . |
| 10 | Justice Minister Prince Bola Ajibola confirmed that by Feb. 12 a total of 5,200 prisoners had been released under the amnesty . |
| 11 | The Annual Closed Week at the beginning of October enables a formal programme of stock-checking to be carried out : in October 1990 a total of 46,182 volumes were thoroughly checked . |
| 12 | According to a survey by the aviation journal Flight International a total of 815 people were killed worldwide in 37 accidents in 1990 . |
| 13 | By Nov. 8 a total of 12 Iranians had been detained while crossing the Israeli-Egyptian border in the western Negev desert . |
| 14 | According to India Today of Dec. 31 a total of 3,560 people had been killed in Punjab between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 , 1990 . |
| 15 | To this end 224 soldiers were dismissed from the Army for their role in the failed Mindanao revolt in October 1990 [ see p. 37781 ] , whilst on Dec. 19 a total of 81 officers and men received prison terms of up to 32 years for participating in an August 1987 coup attempt in which over 50 people were killed [ see pp. 35709-11 ] . |
| 16 | By the end of the academic year 1981–2 a total of sixteen main independent centres for the provision of two-year part-time programmes leading to the Certificate in Education ( FE ) had been validated by the CNAA . |
| 17 | In several incidents on April 3-4 a total of 21 people were killed . |
| 18 | By mid-June 1990 a total of 14 parties had been authorized and a 15th had requested recognition following the decision of the PDCI on May 3 , 1990 , to allow opposition parties to operate [ see p. 37445 ] . |
| 19 | In the example shown in Fig. 6.13 a total of three clock pulses are blocked during the acceleration interval . |
| 20 | By June 1990 a total of 95,000 Germans had their applications for citizenship approved by the West German embassy in Bucharest , while the mayor of Sibiu , Mircea Tomas , was reported by Tanjug as saying during a visit to Belgrade that the German community in Romania had fallen to only 80,000 . |