Example sentences of "that a total of " in BNC.

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1 A DoH Press Release reported that a total of 113 applications to join the second wave of Trusts had been received .
2 In the event the Association 's Honorary Wings Appeal Organisers , together with enthusiastic and voluntary helpers , set about the challenge with such determination and energy that a total of £2,437,637 was reached , an increase of 47% on the pervious year .
3 However , in December 1967 a review of housing in Derry showed that a total of 4,420 ‘ units of accommodation ’ had been provided — 2,170 by the corporation , 1,745 by the NIHT , and 505 by private enterprise .
4 The red card shown to Walsh and Marta meant that a total of 12 players have now received their marching orders in a competition that has yet to reach its semi-final stages .
5 The Government acknowledges that a total of 5000 ‘ disappeared ’ persons had been reported since 1981 .
6 However , the Commission adds that a total of 139 ‘ public officers ’ were ‘ recorded ’ as having been involved in human rights abuses , including torture .
7 In a study of newly weds ' housing , Madge and Brown ( 1981 ) calculate that a total of 31 per cent of their sample had shared accommodation at some stage in their early married life , usually with parents .
8 The calculations assume that a total of respondents from five hypermarkets is deemed to be adequate , that is 380 .
9 Rather belatedly , Crick and Linsley ( 1983 ) estimated that a total of 20 ‘ health effects ’ ( cancer deaths plus hereditary effects in the first two generations ) would have resulted from the accident .
10 The British Medical Association estimated that 20 per cent of abortions were criminal and using that figure David Glass calculated that a total of 68,000 criminal abortions took place in 1935 .
11 The Group works council volunteered to make collections and their £1,280 was matched by the Company so that a total of £2,560 was donated to the appeal .
12 Minister of State for Agriculture Brian O'Shea revealed that a total of £360,623,000 worth of food was in intervention at the end of last month .
13 A spokesperson for the Vietnamese government estimated that 700 people would leave every month and that a total of between 400,000 and 450,000 were eligible to leave Vietnam under the resettlement programme .
14 In its " final " cleanup plan announced on May 1 , 1989 , Exxon had envisaged employing 3,400 people in the operation ( but following public pressure this number was increased within a matter days to 5,000 , and a total of 12,000 were involved at the height of the operation ) and estimated that a total of US$1,300 million would be spent .
15 In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud .
16 It was announced on Dec. 5 that 900 drug dealers and traffickers had been hanged during 1989 , that a further 900 faced the death penalty and that a total of 14,000 traffickers had been arrested since March 1989 .
17 According to a report by the Senate committee on violence and pacification which was monitoring acts of political violence carried out by the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) , the Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement ( Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amarú — MRTA ) , right-wing death squads and other extremist groups and also , in 1989 , links between rebel groups and drug traffickers , it was estimated that a total of 3,198 people were killed as a result of such activity in the course of 1989 , compared with 1,986 in 1988 .
18 The National People 's Congress ( NPC , the Chinese legislature ) announced on June 18 that a total of 355 people remained in detention for their part in the unrest , a figure that was significantly lower than estimates made by Western human rights organisations .
19 A UN inter-agency mission organized by special representative Martti Ahtisaari visited northern regions in mid-January , reporting that a total of almost 100,000 farmers and livestock herders in Ovamboland , Damaraland and Kaokoland were affected by drought .
20 Ortega announced on Nov. 8 that a total of 5,000 officers would be retired in order to bring the full complement of the People 's Sandinista Army ( EPS ) down to 28,000 " immediately or in a very short time " .
21 It was reported on Feb. 11 that a total of 171 foreign companies , 75 per cent of which were US-based , had signed contracts to take part in emergency re-building .
22 US Treasury Under-Secretary David Mulford , who chaired the meeting , said afterwards that a total of $14,300 million had been pledged in financial support for 1990 and 1991 .
23 IRNA said on Feb. 26 that a total of 9,657 refugees from 27 countries had fled to Iran from Iraq since the outbreak of the war .
24 Foreign Minister Joaquín Ricardo García was quoted by local radio as saying on July 18 that a total of 13,000 Haitian citizens , most of whom were migrant workers , had left the country " in the last few days " , 2,000 of them forcibly repatriated and the rest having left " voluntarily " .
25 Final figures were that a total of 5,712 candidates had stood for election , of whom 1,021 were independents and the remainder represented one of the 59 different parties .
26 On Sept. 7 the army announced that a total of 186 people were under arrest .
27 A Radio France Internationale report on Dec. 31 said that a total of 26 plotters had been executed by firing squad .
28 Latest figures from conservation groups suggest that a total of 24,000 pairs of arctic terns bred during the 1991 season , producing at least 30,000 young .
29 The FAO report estimated that a total of 42 million acres of tropical forest were cleared in 1990 — more than an acre every second — as compared with just 30 million in 1980 .
30 The report , compiled by the Washington-based International Institute for Energy Conservation , says that a total of £1.2 trillion could be saved over the next 40 years if the Bank provided adequate support for energy efficiency in transport , industry , power stations and the domestic market .
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