The phrase "asked a total of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the number of questions or requests made in a specific context, often in surveys or interviews.
Example: "During the meeting, I asked a total of five questions to clarify the project details."
Alternatives: "inquired about" or "posed a total of".
In three samples we asked a total of 1,235 employees, their supervisors, and their co-workers to fill out a survey, and linked their responses to job performance evaluations conducted by the supervisors.
Technically, the Democrats on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions asked a total of 837 questions to Betsy DeVos, the Michigan billionaire tapped by President Trump to be education secretary, after her poor performance at her Jan.
To avoid our results being influenced by preconceptions, we removed all of the lettering from the tables but retained the shape and asked a total of 24 non-chemist undergraduate students, postgraduates and staff to view the patterns on a computer screen and rate them, while we tracked the position of their eyes (see Supplementary Information for detailed methodology and results).
Each participant was asked a total of thirteen questions related to their specific experiences with recruitment in pediatric obesity studies, barriers, and strategies to overcome challenges within recruitment in pediatric obesity studies.
Together with Nicholas Pearce, a Kellogg School of Management doctoral student, I asked a total of 127 non-black participants to rate photographs of some black and white chief executive officers from the 500 largest companies.
I asked a total of 50 psychology department chairs and psychologists at top US universities what they thought about psychic study, and Bem's research in particular.
The four alleged violations of securities laws and RICO, claiming misrepresentation in connection with recommendations of the stock by the company's brokers and asking a total of $1.4 million in compensatory damages.
Therefore the questionnaire was comparatively long covering 16 different domains and asking a total of 76 items.
The 27 included studies encompassed two qualitative studies, and 25 surveys asking a total of 57 questions regarding possible barriers to the uptake of evidence from systematic reviews, meta-analysis and databases containing them.
To establish their framework Cabana et al. [ 12] identified barriers from 120 quantitative surveys asking a total of 293 closed-ended questions as well as from major themes in five qualitative studies.
Mothers were asked to take a total of six saliva samples from their child at waking, 30 minutes after waking, and at bedtime for two consecutive days.
