The phrase "a total of five persons" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when specifying the exact number of individuals involved in a situation or context.
Example: "The committee will consist of a total of five persons to ensure diverse representation."
Alternatives: "a total of five people" or "five individuals in total."
Hence, we had to use some video clips from comedy dramas, which had a total of ten persons whose facial expressions were similar to the training samples.
LANŠKROUN (17 May 1945): One of the Germans who were hung on street lamps after being tortured; a total of twenty-four persons were killed.
When we finally policed the area and packed up to leave at about 7 o'clock, a total of nine persons in addition to our party had used the area, nowhere near the 50 for which the area had been reserved, according to the guards.
A total of forty persons participated in the meetings including twenty one invited participants, of whom seven came from developing countries and seven were staff members of international development agencies: EEC, ICARDA, IDRC, IEMVT, ILCA, ITVM and the World Bank.
The completion of the FC dataset, taking data preparation, annotation of characters and taxa, ontology development, and team discussions into account, required a total of two person-years (4136 h), with a resulting overall annotation rate of 0.65 characters per hour.
A total of two hundred and thirty (230) persons participated in the study.
Children: A total of six test persons aged 12 years are required.
These occur in each phase according to the following model: Children: A total of six test persons aged 12 years are required.
A total of five pancreatic cancer cases were found during 102 295 person-years of follow-up (first 6 months excluded), whereas 3.5 were expected.
As many registries did not separate ages <1 and 1 4, we collapsed these strata for comparability across registries; thus for each registry we recorded a total of six counts and six person-years – one for each of the gender/age strata.
