"checks totalling" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a sum of money obtained by adding up several individual checks. Example: The accountant added up the checks totalling $5,000 and deposited them into the company's account.
On a recent afternoon, Madison was in his Third Avenue office, preparing the stupid letter for a client who had requested that a pair of checks, totalling five thousand dollars, be sent to two friends.
The next evening, as he sat in his car waiting to get on the seven-o'clock ferry back to Blacks Harbour, a man he'd never met before handed him an envelope with cash and checks totalling just about twenty thousand dollars.
But as one of the last papers was being signed Chen remembered something: his wife had written Ken Yu two checks totalling twenty-five hundred dolland, and he wanted to make sure that this money had been credited along with his other payments.
Changhong said Ji defaulted on $470 million in debt and wrote 37 bogus checks totalling $85 million.
In the ensuing year, Betty Parsons sent Pollock checks totalling $6,508.23 on gross sales of over $10,000, at a time when more than two thirds of American families lived on less than $4,000 per year.
There were 75 letters with checks totaling $11,970.
The checks, totaling $72 million, were returned to the I.R.S. by the Postal Service.
One such letter, from Joseph Feeks in Edgartown, Mass., included 33 checks totaling $1,503 for Neediest Cases.
To cheer the leader up, he said, he handed him checks totaling $260,000.
Then, Mr. Wible said, she cashed several of her own checks totaling $12,700.
After 9/11 Mr. Feinberg wrote checks totaling $7 billion to 5,300 families and injured individuals.
