total intake

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalandintake

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total
adjective
uk
/ˈtəʊ.təl/us
/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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intake
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.teɪk/us
/ˈɪn.teɪk/
an act of taking in something, ...
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(Definition oftotalandintakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftotal intake

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Thus, at this level of dietary sodium, the drive for sodium could cause elephants to pursue foods that only incrementally improve theirtotalintake.
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In addition, alcohol consumption tables used in the rating process contained ranges of consumption patterns intended to reflect similar levels oftotalintake(low, moderate, or heavy).
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Figures for thetotalintakeof engineering apprentices are not available.
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This makes a total of about 12,000 boys a year, amounting to about a quarter of thetotalintake.
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Many of us also cannot see the logic of reducing the size of the grammar schools, or of combining them to reduce theirtotalintake.
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Totalintakestands at over 2,200, with some 750 currently undergoing training.
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Compared with the same period last year, there has been an increase in thetotalintakeof recruits during the past four months.
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Reliable figures for thetotalintakeof apprentices to the construction industry are not available.
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This figure is fortotalintakefrom all sources, including fish, and incorporates a very large safety margin.
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Previously, we had thought that the highest figure would not be more than one-third of thetotalintake.
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A comprehensive school is comprehensive in name only unless it enjoys the capacity to take in thetotalintakeof students in its locality.
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It is based on a percentage of thetotalintakefor the year.
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I agree that thetotalintakeis not satisfactory in the country as a whole.
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Levels have to be considered in relation to thetotalintakefrom food.
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That is approximately one-quarter of thetotalintake.
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It represents more like a third of thetotalintakeat the schools actually in the scheme.
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Apprentices will be selected from thetotalintakeat the end of the first year.
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In thetotalintakeof 11,000, the fall-off is 15,400.
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We can therefore assume that the lead which we are getting from the air does not represent more than one-fifth of thetotalintake.
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Thetotalintakefor 1967 looks like being less than 16,000, as compared with 19,928 and 18,502 for 1965 and 1966 respectively.
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