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The new raise brings Forbion’s total assets under management to about 7.5 billion euros, or $8.5 billion, up 50% from two years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Jefferies estimates a total addressable market for this illness in the U.S. of $900 million-$1.6 billion annually, adding that is a conservative assessment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Northern Ireland's first nine points in the Uefa Nations League were accumulated over the grand total of 17 games.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
In total, the federal government has now spent nearly $3.2 billion on detention facility purchases, the majority of them in California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
In his early years in Paris, he lived in total poverty.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Crossings are more common during warmer weather and when there are calmer sea conditions, with the highest monthly totals typically between June and September.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
CPL shared the post on Instagram, where other patrons began volunteering their totals in the comments — a spontaneous little leaderboard for people whose competitive edge expresses itself through returning DVDs on time.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Garreaud said precipitation totals reached levels "rarely seen in the otherwise extremely arid region."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
The Middle East oil companies are also moving more oil to the Red Sea through pipelines, further expanding their export totals.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
From a few incidents in which before and after totals are known with relative certainty, Dobyns calculated that in the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The Wine Institute, which represents California wineries, said in a report that U.S. wine exports totaled $805 million in 2025, down 35% from 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
On some of those days, new lows have totaled well over 300 issues.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The watchdog's report also notes that equipment losses have totaled $3.7bn, with other $7.4bn in other expenditures.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Core inflation totaled 2.4%, above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
At the time, the reparations totaled about $32 billion.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Her dad paid for her lessons, which totalled about £2,000.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
In the capital Havana, power outages totalled more than 30 hours at a time, while in the outlying provinces, it was several days before electricity was restored.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Hull, who hit 13 of 14 fairways last Friday, totalled 63 putts in the first two rounds.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
In contrast, Canadian-resident return trips from overseas countries by air totalled 1.5 million in March, up 4.9% on-year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
I've counted up the fellows that went back to work, and I've totalled them up day by day.
From The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster
The procurement of seven gas turbines totaling 5.25GW also positions YTL for power-generation growth and supports its expanding data-center pipeline, he reckons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Anthropic had cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaling $20.28 billion at the end of last year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
In June, the board approved three other seismic-risk reconstructions totaling $496.9 million: Normandie Avenue Elementary and 107th Street Elementary — both in South L.A. — and Narbonne High School in the Harbor area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
His state financial disclosure for 2001 listed assets totaling no more than $170,000, a ProPublica and Tribune analysis found.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Thus I have created an opportunity for Lambert to earn back everything I took from the city—a fortune totaling $40 million at my last reckoning.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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They also say those convicted have been jailed for sentences totalling 118 years and 22 migrant criminals were deported as a result of their offences.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
More than 60% — totalling an estimated 3,633 homeless people — live within a mile of downtown venues and face possible expulsion, the report said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
It shows there have been 66 confiscation orders between January 2021 and March 2026, totalling £7.3m.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In 2024, Iran relied on the UAE for 30.6 percent of its imports totalling roughly $21 billion according to the World Trade Organization.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The last count for this Association's membership made last week shows the Association has 575 paid members, plus 20 subscribers and one foreign exchange membership, totalling 596.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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