Addressing new email messages

Hi, when I type in the first letter of someone I want to email it comes up with a massive and I mean massive list of addresses that I have apparently used frequently in the past.  This is on each letter ofthe alphabet.  I only have a few saved contacts and the odd other address that I use frequently that I would expect it to remember and bring up as a possibility I want to send a message to.
My question is how do I delete these addresses, at the moment I have to have a new message open, put in say "a", then click on the cross to the right, it asks me am I sure I want to delete as I used it frequently I put yes and off it goes, but this is for each address, takes a very long time, I've had several sessions at it and only managed to delete a litte of addresses starting with a.
How can I delete more at a time please?  Any ideas would be appreciated.  I think they all came from my account being scammed at some point, but I should have that sorted now, just need to get rid of these addresses in case they are being used to "send emails from my acount".

I never upgraded to the current version of BT Yahoo! as the classic one seemed more reliable. I can tell you how to proceed in Classic Mail, hoping there's something similar in the new version.
Click the Contacts tab in webmail; this should bring up a list of contacts in the left-hand pane (quite a long list for you it seems!) If you check more than one of them a message "X Contacts selected" appears in the main pane; clicking Delete removes all the selected contacts in one go. To remove all contacts at once, check the box at the top to select them all.
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