There were 894 care applications in March alone, the highest monthly total since records began in 2001.

At the university's five business schools, where a total of 861 new students began study, the picture was similar.

In Walker's final season as a Mountaineer, 1995, his totals began to decrease even more.

A total of 247 photographers submitted 958 prints - the largest number of entries since the annual began in 1982.

By this time, he had written a total of three unpublished novels, and at his wife's urging, began taking his writing more seriously.

Through the night, she watched the results, as Bush's electoral-vote total began to rise.

A total of seven radial lines began at the ring, four of which later linked up in the centre to become diameters.

A total of 174 cooks, all men, began preparing breakfast at once, and at 6:45 the cry went up: "Ham and eggs!

A total of 60 students began the fall term at that location.