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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a total of confirmed" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks a noun to clarify what is being confirmed.
You can use it when you want to indicate a specific quantity of confirmed items, but it needs to be followed by a noun for clarity.
Example: "There were a total of confirmed cases reported last week."
Alternatives: "a total of verified" or "a total of acknowledged".
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As of, a total of confirmed exoplanets are listed in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, including a few that were confirmations of controversial claims from the late 1980s.
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A total of 180 confirmed GERD patients and 60 controls were included in the study.
A total of 400 confirmed deaths had occurred since December 2013, when the first infection showed up in Guinea's Guéckédou Prefecture.
According to United Press International, there have been a total of three confirmed cougar sightings in Illinois since 2002 noting the state has been "mostly cougar-free since at least 1870".
Bolt scored a total of 12 confirmed aerial victories during his career, with an additional "probable" victory and two aircraft damaged.
Analysis was performed on a total of 1331 confirmed bacterial meningitis cases of patients aged 1 month to 14 years.
As of February 24th , 2010the MSH has reported a total of 70866 confirmed influenza A (H1N1)v cases and 1076 deaths throughout Mexico [10].
During the 2003 SARS epidemic, a total of 132 confirmed SARS patients were reported from these two hospitals, which derived from two completely unrelated super spread events (SSE).
North-east Gabon experienced four outbreaks between 1994 and 2002, with a total of 259 confirmed human cases and only 79 survivors (case fatality rate: 69%).
Between 1990 and 2006, in seven out of seventeen north-eastern Italian provinces (Trento, Bolzano, Belluno, Pordenone, Udine, Treviso, Vicenza), TBE has emerged clinically (Fig. 1), with a total of 198 confirmed human TBE cases (Table 2).
Of these, 5 turned out to be viraemic yielding a total of 69 confirmed dengue-infections.
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