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The phrase "a sum total of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the complete amount or total of something, often in a mathematical or evaluative context.
Example: "The project required a sum total of 500 hours of work from the entire team."
Alternatives: "a total of" or "an overall total of".
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And yet it has a sum total of zero nominations.
I'll just be a sum total of these positions that I've taken up to fulfil commissions".
"I think I received a sum total of zero offers," he said, laughing.
In those cases, an estate can be more than a sum total of assets.
They are reconsidering the obituary not as the final judgment, but as a way death can be presented as a sum total of its stories.
I received a sum total of seven emails during the course of this match - five of which were from people requesting more email banter.
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But then again, over the last decade jazz and metal have become harder to reduce and easier to like, in a sum-total kind of way.
It offers a sum totalling just 50% of development costs.
The optimal combination of attributes minimizes a weighted sum of total fractional misclassification and the percentage of the total number of variables employed to obtain the misclassification.
The first was a total score or sum of all 11 items.
Cover for each species was expressed as a percentage of the summed total of species maximum cover values in each quadrat in each year.
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