The total of sea ice is known as the sea ice extent.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

"Probably,they could count citizens of pre-war Poland [eastern Poland,annexed to the USSR by the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact as Soviet citizens, and this way enlarge the total amount of their losses.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The decision late Wednesday from the Geneva-based body comes the same day as Germany and Austria announced their first confirmed cases of swine flu, raising the total number of countries affected to 10.

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

By 2016,governments would be required to stabilize or begin reducing the percentage of their debt as measured against total gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced in a given country.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury official leading the pay review, says the executives' salaries will be cut by as much as 90 percent, and their average total compensation will drop by about half, starting in November.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22