However, the judge is also totting up possible damages on products that the jury did not consider.

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Whatever else this means, firms should probably not start totting up their spoils of war just yet.

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Even totting up the overall number of providers is difficult, partly because some do this only as a sideline.

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The country is now totting up votes cast by expatriate Italians in cities such as New York and Buenos Aires for six new Senate seats.

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Ministers, though, want fundamentally to change the culture of councils totting up their needs, and sending a begging letter to central government to pay the bills.

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Now totting all of this up and finding out the true effects of this mixture of taxes would be, as the technical term has it, a right pain.

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Their predictions rely entirely on totting up economic statistics.

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Calculations by scientists, who are forever totting up times but are often bad at mental arithmetic, will also be much easier if they can just move decimal points instead of multiplying and dividing.

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In 2003, Nintendo released the completely redesigned Game Boy Advance SP which, most importantly, added a front-lit screen, attempting rectifying the one major problem people had with the original GBA. Recently, Nintendo released yet another GBA varient, the Game Boy Micro, with a small and sleek design aimed in large part at an older, iPod-totting audience.

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