[Ads-l] "numerous of"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 13, 2016, at 3:02 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> "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

I'll beat Jerry Cohen to the punch and posit a blend of "numerous times" and "a number of times".

LH

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