total casualty
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftotalandcasualty
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total
adjective
uk/ˈtəʊ.təl/us/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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casualty
noun
uk/ˈkæʒ.ju.əl.ti/us/ˈkæʒ.ju.əl.ti/
a person injured or killed in a serious accident ...
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If they are depressed, the environment is likely to be an early and perhaps almosttotalcasualty.
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Last year the estimatedtotalcasualtyfigures for riders and passengers of motor cycles, mopeds and scooters was 68,000.
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The appendix includes all the attacks, locations, target(s), total casualties, and claims of responsibility to date.
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Of the total casualties 43 % were diagnosed as suffering from just psychological problems and a further 27 % had mistakenly injected themselves with atropine (an antidote to gas poisoning).
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What were the total casualties in the last war?
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Total casualties are reported to have been 21 dead and about 460 injured.
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The total casualties in 1968 were 2,537 and there were 392 cases of severe injury.
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Total casualties for the whole country are published at the end of each month.
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Estimates of total casualties in drink drive accidents, including those where the driver cannot be breath tested, are not available.
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The total casualties reported are 16 men injured, in four causes seriously, but no deaths.
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Since the armistice talks began, total casualties have been about 130,000.
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I have a shrewd suspicion of what our total casualties may be.
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Its failures have added a million and a half to our total casualties, and it is still to go on.
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No final report of the total casualties has yet been received.
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Were these trends to continue, total casualties could reach half a million by 1985, and 140,000 of these could be fatal or serious.
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There have been casualties on a scale which is pretty heavy—total casualties of 128,000.
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They fought for an entire day and their total casualties were one sergeant with his eye blacked and one subaltern with his arm broken.
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In the same period total casualties to pedestrians in built-up areas amounted to 25,663.
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Overall a negligible effect on total casualties was noted.
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Why is it that the lists can be published from day to day but not the total casualties?
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