I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a complete/perfect/total stranger (= used to emphasize that you do not know the person )
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Really, I don't know why I'm revealing all this to a complete stranger.
a complete/total ban
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They are seeking a complete ban on nuclear testing.
a complete/total contrast
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A complete contrast in building style can be seen in Commercial Road.
a complete/total disaster
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Last Saturday’s game was a complete disaster for our team.
a complete/total embargo
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There is a complete embargo on arms sales to governments that violate human rights.
a complete/total lack of sth
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I was amazed by his almost total lack of interest in music.
a complete/total misunderstanding
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There seems to be a complete misunderstanding of how the changes will affect us.
a complete/total mystery
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She said that her husband’s disappearance was a complete mystery.
a complete/total shock
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No one expected the factory to close – it was a complete shock.
a complete/total surprise
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The news came as a complete surprise.
a complete/total/outright lie (= something that is completely untrue )
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Of course the whole thing was a complete lie.
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She didn't want to tell her mother an outright lie.
a total budget
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The National Institute of Health had a total budget of $11. 3 billion.
a total eclipse (= one in which the Sun or Moon is completely hidden )
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The best places to witness the Sun's total eclipse are in southern Africa and South America.
absolute/complete/total obedience
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The King required absolute obedience.
absolute/total/complete loyalty
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He knew that he had Boyle's complete loyalty.
be a complete/total myth
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It’s a complete myth that eating carrots helps you to see in the dark.
combined total
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Her records have sold a combined total of 14 million copies.
complete/total breakdown
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The disagreement finally led to a complete breakdown of their relationship.
complete/total darkness
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It was late and all the houses in the village were in total darkness.
complete/total nonsense
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Most of what has been written on this subject is complete nonsense.
complete/total privacy
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The lawn was surrounded by tall bushes, giving complete privacy.
complete/total/absolute/utter silence
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They sat in complete silence.
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The silence in the room was absolute.
complete/total/pure fabrication
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Of course, it might all be complete fabrication.
complete/total/utter confusion
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Candy's eyes showed her total confusion.
complete/total/utter failure
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The project ended in total failure.
full/complete/total authority
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The manager has full authority to make decisions.
full/total commitment
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Such therapies demand full commitment from the patient.
in total disarray
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This left the Liberal Party in total disarray .
sum total
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That’s the sum total of my knowledge about it.
the complete/total opposite
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She is the complete opposite of her sister.
the full/total cost
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Experts are still assessing the full cost of the disaster.
the total length
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The total length of the completed railway line will be almost 650 kilometres.
the total sum
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The total sum lost is believed to be around £2 million.
the total/whole/entire population
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The entire population will be celebrating.
total concentration
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I was impressed by her total concentration on the game.
total consumption
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Total consumption of petrol has risen by 20%.
total obscurity
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The competition has helped some aspiring writers to emerge from total obscurity.
total recall (= remembered everything )
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He had total recall of every play in the game.
total/complete chaos
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When we arrived, there was total chaos.
total/complete destruction
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In a populated area, a wave that high would cause total destruction.
total/complete extinction
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Hippos may face total extinction if their habitat continues to dwindle.
total/complete freedom
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Riding a motorbike gives me a feeling of total freedom.
total/overall expenditure
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The company's total expenditure rose by 19%.
total/reckless/complete/flagrant etc disregard
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Local councillors accused the terrorists of showing a complete disregard for human life.
total/sheer panic
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A wave of total panic swept across her.
utter/total contempt
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Sally looked at him with utter contempt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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She was working in almost total darkness.
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Marquez describes a society in a state of almost total background.
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He was greeted with massive and ironic cheers from the Opposition and listened to in almost total silence by our own benches.
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Jesse Jackson descended upon Hollywood to protest the almost total absence of black and minority nominees.
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What has been striking over the past few weeks is the almost total absence of diplomacy.
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All around me, I observed an almost total lack of poisonous herbage.
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It takes about 20 minutes to work and can give almost total pain relief.
■ NOUN
amount
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Look at the total amount of yarn required for the size you will be making.
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But the total amount of helium-3 in Uranus and Neptune is vastly larger than this paltry sum.
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The total amount payable is inaccurate. 10.
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In Texas, for instance, the total amount of punitive damages awarded between 1968 and 1971 was $ 85, 000.
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This online service, dubbed Redemption Buster, aims to calculate the total amount of savings associated with remortgaging.
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They have contributed an important percentage of the total amount of secondary school instruction offered in the entire nation in recent years.
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Internal growth accounted for the total amount of revenue increase, the company said.
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Greeley declined to disclose how much Kerry raised last year or the total amount of cash in his campaign accounts.
asset
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Therefore, equity demands that they share in the total assets .
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Closedends' total assets of $ 130 billion are dwarfed by the $ 2. 51 trillion in open-end funds' assets.
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Between 1960 and 1970, however, total assets grew sevenfold.
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As you can see from Table 16.2, they account for a tiny fraction of total assets .
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Cicero Bank is a New Yorkchartered commercial bank with total assets of $ 26 million and total deposits of $ 21 million.
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Its development costs are not much less than the firm's total asset value.
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By December 1995, 91 unit trusts had a total asset base of 33. 7 billion rand.
ban
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These will include maintaining the status quo, retaining hunting with new restrictions, a partial ban , and a total ban.
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But Congress overrode those draft guidelines before they were finalized and imposed a total ban two years ago.
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Maybe at a later date a total ban will be introduced.
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There will be a total ban on smoking, with effect from 1 January 1994.
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A total ban on military flights was also accepted.
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A total ban might also be opposed as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.
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A total ban on all advertising and promotion.
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Environment groups want a total ban on tankers.
commitment
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Your success will come because of your will to succeed and your total commitment to your ideal.
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It was a full and total commitment .
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He was an activist by total commitment , and a professional.
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Him against them, life against death ... total commitment , both mental and physical.
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But it required total commitment , a huge investment and much patience.
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Nevertheless, the Allies had suffered 252,000 casualties out of a total commitment of 480,000.
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Mrs Thatcher risked impeding democratisation by not giving the Community total commitment , he said.
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It was total commitment and the most crucial moment of her life.
control
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By 1973 this measure was considered inadequate and the government took total control of the mining companies.
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She exerts total control over her schedule, her programs, and her recordings.
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He has total control over the broadcasting media and the government that he laboriously cobbled together over an eight-month period.
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Mussina appeared in total control on the mound, cool and efficient.
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At all times the guide was in total control .
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The coal industry had no say in running the fund, and Lewis had total control of it.
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He replied that without total control he didn't have a job.
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Entertainment on-demand is expected to give each viewer total control over what, when, and where to watch.
cost
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The total cost of these recalls is expected to run to several million dollars.
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How would the total costs differ? 5.
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First, it enables the total cost of the project to be identified unequivocally at the outset.
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The premium was scheduled to decline as a percentage of total costs after 1998.
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Staff costs amount to 60-80% of total costs, yet redundancy remains rare.
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Estimates of the total cost vary wildly from $ 200 billion to $ 500 billion per year.
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They are having to be repaired at a total cost of some £20 million.
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The gives a total cost to operate of $ 250,630.
costs
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If successfully claimed, 50 percent of the total costs of the training would be refunded by Grampian Enterprise.
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But the total number of jobs usually falls, and the total costs to the economy usually rise.
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Staff costs amount to 60-80% of total costs, yet redundancy remains rare.
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How would the total costs differ? 5.
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He even gave budgets for the plans showing the total costs of the proposed houses, furnished or unfurnished and with gardens.
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The premium was scheduled to decline as a percentage of total costs after 1998.
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Central government funding represents 20% to 40% of the total costs of about 400 projects, eighty of which are major.
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The difference between total revenue of $ 15 and total costs of $ 13 will be an economic profit of $ 2.
darkness
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She was working in almost total darkness .
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One ordinary Ecosphere managed to stay alive in a total darkness for six months, contrary to logical expectations.
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The graveyard was in total darkness .
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Play around the centre spot was fast and furious, though the ground was in total darkness everywhere else.
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They were surprised to find the house in total darkness .
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He cried out, suddenly aware he was in total darkness , the smashing of stone joining the cry.
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John's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness .
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They formed a small aura of light, leaving both ends of the room in total darkness .
energy
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Thus, in patients with carbohydrate malabsorption the colon may play an important role in meeting total energy needs.
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As much as several percent of the total energy of an entering meteor is radiated as light and heat.
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The answer is that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero.
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The total energy return is enough to meet all human power needs for several hundred years.
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Deciding - consciously or not - to expend energy involves a choice and an assessment of the total energy available.
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The total energy given off is thousands of times more than any conceivable chemical reaction could produce.
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There will also be an increase in the proportion of total energy demand accounted for by coal.
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The total energy tax bill for industry in 1990 totalled 6 billion krone.
expenditure
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The Bar Council's equal opportunities programme will account for some 10% of total expenditure this year.
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The civil service accounted for almost half of total expenditure .
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The content of standing order lists should be regularly reviewed, especially when their percentage of the total expenditure begins to rise.
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By far the most important medium, in terms of total expenditure on advertising and sales promotion, is the press.
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Jardana said that the figure for total expenditure represented a 20 percent cut in real terms from 1989.
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As a consequence, the volume of bank deposits has a minor influence on the general price level and total expenditure .
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In such circumstances, it is more appropriate to treat the quantity demanded as the total expenditure on the skiing trip.
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In terms of total expenditure of time, instructional and general care and supervisory activities were clearly the two main duties.
failure
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Now she finally had to admit that it had all been a total failure .
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A small indulgence is viewed as a total failure , and uncontrolled rebound eating follows.
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This work must be well organised and error-free on the night or the result will be total failure .
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If this occurs, the buyer can no longer claim to have suffered a total failure of consideration.
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But they must also provide powerful facilities to reduce the proportion of total failures and to aid demanding and persistent users.
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This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure .
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The risk of total failure is, of course, part of the price of love.
income
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The average rate is total tax paid, divided by total income . 3.
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Foreign-exchange turnover doubled in 1992 and total income from that source jumped from £136 million to £228 million.
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In the case of a normal life interest trust the trustee expenses will reduce the taxpayer's total income .
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They, therefore, form a smaller share of total income for the highest income group.
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Nevertheless, our weekly bill for provisions alone came to 25 shillings, or half of our total income .
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The housing benefit they can claim to offset that bill is added to the total income .
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Basic provision of shelter, heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants.
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He has a total income of £68.05, although housing benefit is paid direct.
lack
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Midge's total lack of emotion prevented him from sharing his own grief with her and he found that unbearable.
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All around me, I observed an almost total lack of poisonous herbage.
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Everywhere there is a total lack of understanding about hygiene, antisepsis, and the importance of sanitation.
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When a compliment like that is based upon a total lack of information it seems like a kind of mockery.
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He saw that honesty and within it somehow, a total lack of the cynicism that had marred his own life.
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There are problems that call for imagination and ingenuity, and there are others that call for a total lack of it.
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They have shown a total lack of interest in joint action in the face of rising fuel prices.
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Tioman's greatest attraction is the almost total lack of anything to do.
loss
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The loss of personality along with the total loss of short-term memory is very exhausting to live with.
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Tackle Dana Stubblefield sacking Aikman twice for a total loss of 17 yards.
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In the event of the total loss of one of these separately insured items the proper settlement is the sum insured.
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This way the Republican revolution of 1994, which promised so much, will not be a total loss .
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And that's not even necessarily 80 percent of the total loss .
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But of course the place burned for 25 minutes, and it was a total loss .
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A 33-year-old widow with four children in my constituency lost free school meals and housing benefit - a total loss of £25.
number
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This increase in gastric secretion showed a positive correlation to the total number of cigarettes smoked.
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But the total number of jobs usually falls, and the total costs to the economy usually rise.
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In practice, however, these represented a small total number of posts.
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Thus the total number of concentric spheres in the Eudoxian system was twenty-seven.
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This simply expresses the total number of deaths per 1000 total population.
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In fact, there has been a steady decline in the total numbers of titles published since then.
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Table 2 presents an alternative analysis of the population by considering the total number of audits involved.
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This brings the total number of National Certificates awarded, after only five years of operation, to over 300,000.
output
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This has led to an alternative way of stating amplifier performance: compare the distortion plus noise with the total output .
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Though proprietorships dominate numerically, the bulk of total output is produced by corporations.
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First, the growth of services in total output is a relative growth, relative that is to manufacturing.
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So much for the adult assessment of the total output of Enid Blyton.
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In position 2 the total output is measured.
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It is not possible to assess his total output as no serious work has been undertaken on him till now.
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Last year, the world's total output grew by almost 5 %, its fastest rate for 16 years.
population
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Discussion Our screening programme covered 0.77% of the total population of Tayside.
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Nationally, illegal immigrants compose 1. 9 percent of the total population .
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The number found breeding successfully in any year is small compared to the total population , for example only 20-25 pairs in 1971.
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In 1977, 24 million households, with a total population of 114 million, each had less than 0.4 hectares of land.
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First, fluoridation will raise the average steady state or plateau level of ionic fluoride in the blood throughout the total population .
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The average cost per item for the total population was £6.03.
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Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 percent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects.
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The total populations served ranged from 100,000 in the case of Bassetlaw to 370,000 in South Nottingham.
quality
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They considered the traditional areas of training and those incorporating strategic business change, corporate learning and total quality management.
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Business teams are critical to implementing total quality programs.
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Xerox now applies benchmarking across its entire operation as part of a total quality management process.
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In delivering the quality message the total quality feel of Q magazine is important for two reasons.
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Third, some challenges require many existing people to learn to work very differently Consider total quality management.
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We are seeing a great cultural change among those companies who are demonstrating the importance and benefits of total quality management.
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They understood statistical process control, total quality customer service, reengineering, and the economics and finance of film manufacturing.
return
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He expects total returns to be only roughly 7 % this year.
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Moreover, that 4. 69 percent total return means the average bond fund owner actually lost principal value in 1996.
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Domesticstock funds posted one of their strongest years on record, with a total return of 31. 11 % in 1995.
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An accumulation, or total return , index of the two markets is calculated after the close of each trading day.
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Real estate stocks pulled down total returns of 35. 7 percent in 1996.
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Safilo SpA stock racked up a 74 percent total return as the manufacturer of eyeglass frames rebounded from years of declining profits.
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In combination with interest payments, bond investors pocketed the third best annual total return since Calvin Coolidge was president.
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When the yen weakens, dollar-based investors see their total return eroded.
sale
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Despite squeezes on capital expenditure in this sector, total sales did increase slightly to £9.3m from £8.3m in 1991.
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Noble Inc. said total sales at its stores rose 22 percent during the nine weeks ended Dec. 30.
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Selected industries have also been able to secure extra depreciation in proportion to any increase in the share of exports in their total sales .
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While all customs duties accrued to the federal government, it received only about one-third of total sales tax revenue in 1985.
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Its total sales rose 13 percent.
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Like-for-like sales at Superdrug were up 5.6 per cent, while total sales were up 8.4 per cent.
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This brought total sales of the album, which was released in 1995, to 11. 6 million.
silence
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He was greeted with massive and ironic cheers from the Opposition and listened to in almost total silence by our own benches.
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The civilian crew of the Kora Sea observed strict social segregation, so Hicks and Gaylord played in nearly total silence .
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They eat in total silence and shuffle out again.
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Just one thing dough don't buy ya in this town, fella; total silence .
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There was a total silence in the house, and the room was full of moonlight.
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Probably the most frequently used rejection is total silence .
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Ferdinando was out, she knew, and so were Pen and Annunciata if the total silence was any indication.
stranger
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After all these years she still couldn't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger .
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When they were admitted, they not only received medical attention, but also love, from total strangers .
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Have you gone mad, talking of marrying a total stranger - and a foreigner - after five minutes?
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This ... this man, this total stranger was actually daring to sit in judgement!
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Honest, to a total stranger he said all that!
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Ten days in an alien village with a total stranger and her totally strange family.
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He was like a total stranger .
sum
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Klein reports that the total sums spent began a slow rise from the 1970s, reaching £39 million by 1983.
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Next they weighed each new shopping plan against their total sum of money.
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Each school received figures showing how the total sum available to them had been allocated under different headings.
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But this total sum is distributed very unevenly among the schools.
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The total sum is then debited to your Current Account.
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The report also says that the total sum spent on improvements is far less than required.
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In the case of unspecified valuables, there is a total sum insured and a separate single article limit.
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The normal premium is about 10 percent of the total sum insured.
value
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These items have an approximate total value of £800.
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If you give your employees a free turkey every Friday, the total value might not be so small.
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Immediately afterwards, the market price of the remaining debt nearly doubled, leaving the total value virtually unchanged.
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The total value to Loral shareholders for the transaction was put at more than $ 10 billion.
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An independent share valuation would have given these shares a total value of about £50,000.
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Five major cases were recorded in 1992, with a total value of £2.9 million.
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In 1991 there were two cases, with a total value of £4.275 million.
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We have total value for Dept.
volume
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The tonnage carried was always well over half the total volume of freight traffic.
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Wieczorek estimates the total volume of rock as 80, 000 cubic yards.
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The total volume is said to contain more than 6,500 pages.
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The total volume of the brown shales is 12, 600 cubic miles as determined from a study of well cuttings.
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The total volume of resources applied by the health services is essentially an arbitrary figure.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bring the total/number/score etc to sth
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A $ 7 parking fee and an automatic $ 12. 15 tip brought the total to $ 93. 15.
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By the time it was eventually closed in 1988, new investors had brought the total to £116 million.
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Cruz also said Muni planned to hire at least 12 additional safety staffers, bringing the total to 72.
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It is estimated that this element would bring the total to over 20,000.
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Michael Forbes of New York, already had declared his opposition to Gingrich, bringing the total to four.
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More than 30 square miles have been annexed into the city, bringing the total to 193.
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The armed forces are said to have sent an extra 2,000 troops to the border area, bringing the total to 3,500.
the sum total
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In his eyes I amount to nothing, much, much less than the sum total of him.
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In the orthodox view the illness is considered to be the sum total of the symptoms and signs which it produces.
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Indeed, the whole is considered to constitute more than just the sum total of its parts.
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Is that the sum total of the charges against me?
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That was the sum total of my formal education for the craft.
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The built environment therefore equates to the sum total of all the assembled items which surround us, both natural and man-made.
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They create the illusion that they are the sum total of their own accomplishments.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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People of Chinese origin made up about 10% of the total population.
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Roller skis provide an excellent total body workout.
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The total cost was far higher than we had expected.
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The company was in total chaos before Richards arrived.
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The Performing Arts Department's total budget for the year was $6.3 million.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Daedalus wonders what breathable foam would be like as a total environment.
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Four sectors lost a total of 5, 300 jobs.
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Students have a free choice deciding on five honours subjects, which are chosen from a total list of about thirty.
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The union convened in 1873 in Cincinnati and quickly grew to encompass one hundred synagogues, half the national total .
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There is much to be said for moving away from total government ownership.
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Today the rate of increase in food production has exceeded the rate of increase in the total world population.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
combined
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There are now around 250 investment trusts worth a combined total of £24 billion.
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Western negotiators called for a ceiling for any one country of 30 percent of the combined East-West total .
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Lessons may seen very expensive at first, but the combined total is less than what many people spend on a holiday.
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This season he has shown remarkable consistency, conjuring up a combined total of 12 goals and 32 points.
final
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The final total will probably be one eighth of this figure.
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This meant that the final total of kids to be rescued came to around one hundred and twenty.
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The final total - 115 all out.
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Their final total of 363-7 is the highest ever recorded in a one-day international.
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The money raised will be added to the final total .
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Mrs Menzies said the final total could be as much as £750.
grand
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Each of the 96 subjects did the experiment twice, giving a grand total of 192 repetitions of the experiment.
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It would be boring work, and they would earn a grand total of I credit for all their pains.
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We are delighted and thrilled with the enthusiasm and ingenuity you have displayed while producing a grand total of over £2,500.
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They worked like hurricane-lamps and had cost the grand total of three dollars in Hanoi market.
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In 10 years with Llanelli his grand total of games was a miserly 260.
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He was earning $ 4. 70 an hour and taking home a grand total of $ 50 a week.
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A great day for the new committee, resulting in a grand total of £475.
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This gives a grand total of 16, 219 interconnections.
high
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It is the highest total for five years.
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These higher totals were obtained through more generous subsidies and a stimulus to private building.
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The Raiders surrendered their highest point total since a 47-17 loss to Houston in 1991.
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This is a disturbingly high total .
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Both numbers were higher totals than Murray has posted in more than two weeks.
jobless
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The Liberal Democrats have stated they would cut the national jobless total by 400,000 within a year.
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Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats agree that radical measures are needed to stem the growing jobless total .
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This would save up to £3 billion at a time when the jobless total is soaring.
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Because they are now paid by the Department of Energy, they have been removed from the jobless totals .
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According to the Unemployment Unit's calculations including them takes the jobless total to more than three million.
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The unadjusted jobless total increased by 78,726 last month to 3,062,065, the highest since April 1987.
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Britain's jobless total will top three million around Christmas and carry on rising into the New Year.
■ NOUN
sum
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Without sounding exactly like anything else, however, its sum total was more a collection of echoes than a consistent voice.
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That was the sum total of my formal education for the craft.
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Everything was lost; the entire sum total of human existence was gone for ever.
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The sum total of their daily offering of music in worship far exceeds that of the cathedrals.
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In the orthodox view the illness is considered to be the sum total of the symptoms and signs which it produces.
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The sum total of data connected with metalworking is hardly a representative guide to such industry or exchange.
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Is that the sum total of the charges against me?
■ VERB
add
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The Group has added a total of 69 mmboe as a result of our ongoing exploration appraisal and development activities.
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If suppliers and dealers are added , the total comes to about 20, 000, Moerdyk said.
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At 31, he wants to add to his total of three Tour wins.
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She got up with a scrape of her chair, collecting plates from a table nearby, adding totals on her pad.
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Who knows, the evergreen Martina Navratilova may now be poised to add to her staggering total of more than 160 major titles.
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Then add monthly totals together-it will be a surprisingly large total.
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She has now learned to drive and joined this year's flag day to add £31,76p to her total .
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Reserve flanker Roy Radu will continue at club level but will not seek to add to his total of twelve caps.
bring
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Chertsey, 4-0 winners at Bracknell, have moved into third place and brought their goals total for the season to 93.
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New boy and new hope Keith Scott brings the spending total to around 1.7 million.
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The move into Darlington will bring the worldwide total of Body Shop outlets to 750.
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The company had opened a record fifteen shops in 1978 bringing its total to over seventy outlets worldwide.
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This brings the cumulative total donated to charity since the scheme began in 1990 to £25,500.
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If it is, it will bring the total of drug deaths in Strathclyde to more than 70 over the past 15 months.
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The latest tragedy brings to five the total of fishermen lost from the village in a week.
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OfficePower sales grew 65%, with over 50,000 licences sold in the year, bringing the total installed base to 300,000.
combine
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Those independent films' directors were also nominated, and they combined for a total of 31 nominations.
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South Dakota and North Dakota hold primaries the same day, with a combined total of 36 delegates at stake.
cost
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Billed as a potential rival to Gleneagles, the development was to cost £60m in total .
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The final three phases, costing a total of $ 140 million, will follow if federal funding is available.
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The flowers and arranging fee cost a total of £395.
give
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This gives a total of 77-5 tonnes.
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Dura, is investing about $ 13 million in Spiros, giving it a total of about $ 41 million.
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They require feeding every two hours giving a total of three to five litres per day depending on size.
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When you make an egg or a sperm, you pick one from each pair to give a total of twenty-three chromosomes.
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Each of the 96 subjects did the experiment twice, giving a grand total of 192 repetitions of the experiment.
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This gives a total of around 65, 000 PEs.
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And Focus Four is still entirely dedicated to composition models and practice - giving a total of twenty pages of composition work.
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This gives a grand total of 16, 219 interconnections.
make
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This makes a total of 50 votes, 4 short of the required total.
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A final dividend of 7.25p makes a total of 12.75p for the nine-month reporting period, a prorata increase of 6 percent.
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The annular tank providing the weight was filled with granite chippings, to make a total of 20 tons.
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Each tank was carried on four pairs of tracks, making a total of 16 points of support to each vehicle.
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And between them they make up a total of thirty-eight different characters.
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A further 150 Ratners stores in the United States will also shut down, making a total of 330.
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They also supplemented the personal interviews with over 500 postal questionnaires making a total of just over 600.
pay
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However, Storehouse paid a total of £1,162,536 compensation to five former directors for loss of office last year.
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Home Properties said it will pay a total of $ 830, 000, according to binding agreements for the three parcels.
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They were fined £100 on each charge and ordered to pay a total of £1,500 in costs.
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Sir Giles Mompesson was adjudged to pay a total of £3,300 for felling timber even though he produced an Exchequer warrant.
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Cunningham was conditionally discharged for one year and ordered to pay a total of £65 compensation.
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One woman is claiming £200,000 from the Ministry, which could end up paying out a total of £60 million in compensation.
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Spend an extra £500 on top of a £500 agreed overdraft and you could end up paying a total of £311.61.
produce
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We are delighted and thrilled with the enthusiasm and ingenuity you have displayed while producing a grand total of over £2,500.
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The suspended sentence would be activated with the term reduced soas to produce an overall total of 18 months.
raise
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It will fund the purchase via a two-for-seven rights issue at 52p a share to raise a total of £31.4 million.
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That would raise a total of $ 75. 9 million, according to a copy of the filing obtained yesterday.
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As a result Beaumaris have raised their current points total to 53 as they harass the leaders Llanfairpwll who are on 54.
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A thousand letters have raised a total of $ 500.
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The levy, which reduces in real terms year on year, will raise a total of £9.1 billion.
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It sold every one, raising a total of £3.6 million.
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They raised a total of 6.9 billion in 1991 and 4.5 billion in the first half of 1992.
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The penguin - alias - sold door noses in the foyer raising a total of £688.
reach
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Capital spending of £43 million should reach a total of £87 million for the full year.
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City-provided loans for the units have reached a total of $ 261 million.
receive
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The winner receives a total of £21,000 with a guaranteed increase in sales and recognition worldwide.
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The firm has received a total of $ 470, 000 from the trust since its inception in June 1994.
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The winner receives a total of £21,000.
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Four more applications were received yesterday and the total of 15 is expected to increase over the next day or two.
spend
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It can vary service spending within the total .
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All appropriated spending totals only a third of the budget.
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His first conviction was quashed on appeal, but he was eventually sentenced and spent a total of two years in jail.
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Since 1983 it spent a total of ECU5.3 million for this purpose.
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Clinton won a total of 28 of the 36 Democratic contests, including those in the 10 most populous states.
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Considered by many as the greatest female athlete of all time, Joyner-Kersee has won a total of six Olympic medals.
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Independents, who constituted one-third of the total candidates, did unexpectedly well, winning a total of 115 seats.
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a grand total
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A great day for the new committee, resulting in a grand total of £475.
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Each of the 96 subjects did the experiment twice, giving a grand total of 192 repetitions of the experiment.
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He was earning $ 4. 70 an hour and taking home a grand total of $ 50 a week.
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In 1990, the residents bought the development-for a grand total of $ 1.
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It would be boring work, and they would earn a grand total of I credit for all their pains.
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This compares to a grand total of £3.1 billion for the whole of last year.
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This gives a grand total of 16, 219 interconnections.
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We are delighted and thrilled with the enthusiasm and ingenuity you have displayed while producing a grand total of over £2,500.
bring the total/number/score etc to sth
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A $ 7 parking fee and an automatic $ 12. 15 tip brought the total to $ 93. 15.
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By the time it was eventually closed in 1988, new investors had brought the total to £116 million.
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Cruz also said Muni planned to hire at least 12 additional safety staffers, bringing the total to 72.
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It is estimated that this element would bring the total to over 20,000.
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Michael Forbes of New York, already had declared his opposition to Gingrich, bringing the total to four.
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More than 30 square miles have been annexed into the city, bringing the total to 193.
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The armed forces are said to have sent an extra 2,000 troops to the border area, bringing the total to 3,500.
running total
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Keep a running total of your expenses.
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And you told me you've kept a running total in your head all the year.
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The cost will simply be kept for each project as a running total entered by hand in a cost ledger.
the sum total
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In his eyes I amount to nothing, much, much less than the sum total of him.
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In the orthodox view the illness is considered to be the sum total of the symptoms and signs which it produces.
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Indeed, the whole is considered to constitute more than just the sum total of its parts.
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Is that the sum total of the charges against me?
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That was the sum total of my formal education for the craft.
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The built environment therefore equates to the sum total of all the assembled items which surround us, both natural and man-made.
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They create the illusion that they are the sum total of their own accomplishments.
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A total of $950 million was spent on the new transportation system.
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A company spokesperson said 28,000 jobs or 70% of the total will be cut.
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If you add 30 and 45 the total is 75.
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The three defendants were jailed for a total of 30 years.
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You had 29 points plus 33 points, so the total is 62.
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Cambridgeshire are 134 for 6 after 55 in reply to Northants' total of 234 for 4.
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Citation totals - the large numbers of incremental additions to the sum of human knowledge.
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David Hunt yesterday welcomed the first 42 projects in a package of aid worth a total of £21.8m.
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Sentences were increased from a total of 72 years to 260 years in prison.
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Some 250 staff will leave Maddox as a result, leaving a total of approximately 200.
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The Colorado researchers tested a total of 104 people in nine families, each with at least two schizophrenics.
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The seasonally adjusted total was nevertheless better than expected.
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This would serve also to reduce the increasingly high percentage of extras in innings totals.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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All of which will total about $ 75, 000, a Granada spokesman said.
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Over the centuries Cornwall's tin output has totalled about 10 times the annual quantity the world produces now.
around
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According to chief executive Max Pearce, the loss for this year would total around £500,000.
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The crudest fragments, totalling around 180,000 tonnes, have been used in widening the Berlin autobahn.
more
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The savings total more than £1m.
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The holdings total more than 30 million square feet.
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Their firms' donations throughout her period of office, admitted in company accounts, totalled more than £4,380,000.
nearly
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Provisions totalling nearly £25m did most of the damage.
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All told, the gathered fleet of aircraft representations totalled nearly one hundred aircraft for the production of Tora!
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The appeal follows the announcement of loans and grants totalling nearly £21,000 to parish councils, sports clubs and voluntary bodies.
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The Institute is grateful to them for their loyal service which in Ian Shaw's case totalled nearly twenty five years.
now
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The loan, with interest, now totals more than $ 11 million.
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The number of bodies recovered now totals 107.
over
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Butler also faced the court for non-payment of fines totalling over £500.
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As a very rough indicator, instalments totalling over one-tenth of income might stand out as a heavy current credit commitment.
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billion
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The funds have more than $ 524 million in tobacco holdings in their portfolios, which total $ 79 billion .
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If it prevails, California taxpayers' share of the mine cleanup bill would total $ 9 billion , not counting inflation.
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That spending covers all federal functions but automatically paid benefits like Medicare, and would total $ 661 billion next year.
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Unconsolidated pretax profit could total 1 billion yen, down from 2. 53 billion yen.
debt
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He added that the number of people with debts totalling more than £10,000 was also a worrying figure.
loan
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The appeal follows the announcement of loans and grants totalling nearly £21,000 to parish councils, sports clubs and voluntary bodies.
million
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The median forecast of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg Business News was that net lending to consumers totalled 700 million pounds in November.
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The holdings total more than 30 million square feet.
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The supervisors have yet to approve the plan, which totals $ 7 million .
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Expenditures on education programs between 1935 and 1941 totalled $ 228 million: a yearly average of approximately $ 30 million .
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Last year was profitable, with earnings totalling $ 497 million before taxes in the first three quarters.
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All told, the buildings will total 2. 6 million square feet of enclosed space.
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Securities trading and underwriting fees totalled $ 13 million , compared with a $ 36 million loss last year.
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The special charge for the program is expected to total approximately $ 265 million .
number
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Auditors total the number of records audited and the number of cases coded for each criteria.
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A total labelling index was calculated as the ratio of labelled cell to total cell numbers for each column.
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Or a young mathematician can be prompted to list different combinations of numbers that, when added, total the number 10.
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This utility will total up the number of bytes each directory is using across a given path.
percent
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This is some way short of percentages in recent years like 1990 for example, when the amount totalled 30 percent of sales.
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Revenue totalled 30 percent of expenditure during 1990, compared to 21 percent in 1989.
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Acceptances for the preference share offer totalled only 1.23 percent .
sale
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This time ticket sales alone will total L55m.
tonne
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Last year solid waste totalled 227,000 tonnes but this is forecast to fall to 206,000 tonnes this year.
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In 1990 output at Bom Futuro is likely to have totalled only 21,000 tonnes .
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It is estimated that world cereal production, which totalled billion tonnes in 1990, will top 3.25 billion tonnes by 2060.
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The crudest fragments, totalling around 180,000 tonnes , have been used in widening the Berlin autobahn.
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Recorded emissions of sulphur dioxide were 2.67 million tonnes in 1992, while nitrous oxides totalled 701,645 tonnes.
year
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Last year solid waste totalled 227,000 tonnes but this is forecast to fall to 206,000 tonnes this year.
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According to chief executive Max Pearce, the loss for this year would total around £500,000.
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Losses for the same period last year totalled 33,085.
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Last year they totalled about 2.5% and this year are unlikely to exceed 2%.
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estimate
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Losses in livestock, crops and property were estimated to total A$300,000,000.
expect
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The special charge for the program is expected to total approximately $ 265 million.
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a grand total
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A great day for the new committee, resulting in a grand total of £475.
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Each of the 96 subjects did the experiment twice, giving a grand total of 192 repetitions of the experiment.
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He was earning $ 4. 70 an hour and taking home a grand total of $ 50 a week.
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In 1990, the residents bought the development-for a grand total of $ 1.
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It would be boring work, and they would earn a grand total of I credit for all their pains.
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This compares to a grand total of £3.1 billion for the whole of last year.
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This gives a grand total of 16, 219 interconnections.
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We are delighted and thrilled with the enthusiasm and ingenuity you have displayed while producing a grand total of over £2,500.
running total
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Keep a running total of your expenses.
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And you told me you've kept a running total in your head all the year.
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The cost will simply be kept for each project as a running total entered by hand in a cost ledger.
the sum total
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In his eyes I amount to nothing, much, much less than the sum total of him.
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In the orthodox view the illness is considered to be the sum total of the symptoms and signs which it produces.
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Indeed, the whole is considered to constitute more than just the sum total of its parts.
▪
Is that the sum total of the charges against me?
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That was the sum total of my formal education for the craft.
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The built environment therefore equates to the sum total of all the assembled items which surround us, both natural and man-made.
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They create the illusion that they are the sum total of their own accomplishments.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Contributions totaled $28,000.
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The company was forced to pay fines and penalties totalling $24.8.
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The number of people included in the study totalled 170.
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The truck was totaled, but no one was hurt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An equivalent drop today would total 1, 800 points.
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Since then, however, there has been a decline in numbers and in 1981-2 enrolments totalled some 5,400.
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The quantity of hazardous waste sent out-of-state for treatment totals 252, 460 metric tons.
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This is some way short of percentages in recent years like 1990 for example, when the amount totalled 30 percent of sales.
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This means that interest payments on a £50,000 mortgage over the past three years totalled £10,682.76.
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Up to four Xplorer systems, totalling 64 processors, also can be connected.