The phrase "encompassing a total" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means including or covering a complete or full amount or range. Example: The budget proposal includes a detailed breakdown encompassing a total of all expenses for the upcoming year.
Researchers analyzed 10 British studies encompassing a total of more than 1,200 participants involved in outdoor activities such as cycling, walking, horseback riding, and fishing.
The proposed model is shown to exhibit, at 20 Hz, a 98.67% success rate on a diverse data-set composed of 39 videos encompassing a total of 29,789 640 × 480 frames.
This academic year, Yale upgraded the technology used in the initiative — now encompassing a total of five fully outfitted videoconferencing rooms for the project — and introduced a new course: advanced Polish, taught by Krystyna Illakowicz, a senior lector I of Slavic languages and literatures.
Meta-analysis of this study with three other GWASs and two targeted genotyping studies, encompassing a total of 9,293 PsV case subjects, 3,061 PsA case subjects, 3,110 PsC case subjects, and 13,670 unaffected control subjects of European descent, detected 10 regions associated with PsA and 11 with PsC at genome-wide (GW) significance.
Studies with less than five patients were excluded, and six papers encompassing a total of 101 patients were included (Table 2).
Harris and her team used data from four large, long-term and nationally representative studies, encompassing a total of about 15,000 participants.
"I wanted," he explains, "to use an approach that encompassed a total design: music, sound, visuals.
To put things in perspective, England, Scotland and Wales encompass a total of 88,745sq miles.
In all, the show encompasses a total of 29 characters, and Mr. Nash definitively delineates each, even when they communicate only with a nod or a shrug.
The two Utah sites encompass a total of more than 3.2 million acres, part of the reason they have aroused such intense emotions since their designation.
The parkway, established in 1936, encompasses a total area of 149 square miles (386 square km) and is administered by the U.S. National Park Service (NPS).
