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missdaredevil
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 Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:42 am Post subject: no number |
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*No number* of house-cleaning chimpanzees, celebrity animal parties, video games or amusement park rides can cover the fundamental horror of a man age forty who pretends to be a twelve year old child.
Here it means *no one*, right?
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Bob S.
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
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Location: So. Cal
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 11:15 am Post subject: Re: no number |
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| missdaredevil wrote: |
*No number* of house-cleaning chimpanzees, celebrity animal parties, ...
Here it means *no one*, right? |
I would say it means:
No amount
or
No quantity of
Other example:
She was so sad, no number of nice words from her friends could make her feel better. (Her friends tried to make her feel better with nice words, but she still felt sad.) |
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