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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _sum_cycles_from_tokens(self, tokens: List[str]) -> int: """Sum the total number of cycles over a list of tokens."""

        return sum((int(self._nonnumber_pattern.sub('', t)) for t in tokens))