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- 01. The [total] number of students in the English Language Program is about 250.02. The movie we went to last night was [totally] unreal. You've got to see it.03. The [total] of 5 plus 8 is 13.04. Hundreds of stolen CDs, [totaling] over $10,000 in value, were found in the back of a car stopped by police after the driver went through a stop sign.05. The [total] cost of the project is estimated to be well over a million dollars.06. Denise won prizes [totaling] $12,500 on a game show.07. The flood [totally] destroyed the entire village in about an hour's time.08. Football coach George Allen once remarked that winning is the science of being [totally] prepared.09. The people of Papua New Guinea speak around 700 languages, about 15% of the world's [total].10. The number of hamburgers the McDonald's fast-food chain has sold is 12 times the world's [total] population.11. A [total] of $1,000,000 in prizes will be given away in the contest.12. The average brain takes up 2 percent of a person's [total] body weight, yet it requires 25 percent of all the oxygen used by the body.13. Chimpanzees live in communities composed of family groups of three to six individuals, [totaling] about 50 animals.14. Between 1588 and 1613, William Shakespeare wrote a [total] of 37 plays, more than 150 sonnets, and numerous poems.15. In 1990, the People's Republic of China announced the results of a nationwide census showing its population [totalled] 1.13 billion people.16. Abigail Van Buren once said that a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats [total] ignorance.17. Wayne Dyer once said that our lives are a sum [total] of the choices we have made.
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.