The phrase "adding that the total" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when providing additional information or clarification about a total amount in a statement or report.
Example: "The accountant provided the final figures, adding that the total for the quarter exceeded expectations."
Alternatives: "noting that the total" or "stating that the total".
"Let's just say we exceeded our best expectations," he said, adding that the total "would knock your socks off".
"The numbers are staggering," Mr. Giuliani said, adding that the total number of visitors should hit 38.4 million this year, up from 28.5 million in 1995.
Doctors said they had documented 34 dead and 216 injured on Tuesday alone, adding that the total number was likely to be higher as some families retrieved their dead from bombarded sites without taking them to local hospitals.
An additional 3,000 with accounts at various banks had come forward since then, Mr. Shulman said, adding that the total disclosures over the period would top 20,000.
"I am a confirmed Ritchey enthusiast," he declares, adding that the total cost of the bike, with many different components added in, was $5,000, including the hard travel case that allowed him to check it for free, just as he would another piece of baggage.
By the end of the year, nearly 4.5 million refugees will be in other countries in what the UN describes as the "biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation" The number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries has passed 4 million, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday, adding that the total was on course to reach 4.27 million by the end of 2015.
Robert A. Iger, Disney's chief executive, called the results "phenomenal" in a statement, adding that the totals were "the largest quarterly earnings in the history of our company".
That indicated, he added, that the total job loss in that sector was likely to be much greater than in 2001.
"If this trend continues," she added that "the total shortfall on the corporation tax could exceed $75 million by the end of the fiscal year" on June 30.
The initial surgery cost a little more than $200,000, state officials said, but added that the total medical costs would end up close to $1 million.
She added that the total spending rate of roughly 10 percent did not reflect hundreds of millions of dollars that had been awarded to local communities for projects still in the pipeline and not yet completed.
