[Ads-l] "numerous of"

[Wilson Gray]

"Problem with a wooden bridge is it had to be repaired _a numerous of
times_.

A member of the Facebook S.I.G., US Army in Germany, recounting the history
of the Glienicke Bridge at Potsdam.

 I don't think that I've seen this structure in print, before, and this is
certainly a first for "_a_ numerous of..."
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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