Even though the register consisted of only 500 names, in reality the whole contingent of registered cossacks was accounted for around 4,000.

I dropped in to say good-bye - for all of us, the whole contingent.

During 10 and 11 August the US Air Force airlifted the whole contingent out of Iraq.

I sent the whole contingent at Singapore there over half an hour ago.

One night, them good church folk held a meetin' and a whole contingent of them marched over to our house and told my daddy to get out.

There were no guards anywhere, as if the whole contingent had been withdrawn.

Qian's men handed over Ba's whole contingent, all of whom had their heads wrapped in black.

Voices could be heard shouting that a whole contingent of troops had surrounded several of the pleasure establishments in the street.

I couldn't send a whole contingent of jokers-that would start a civil war here, and the jokers would inevitably lose.