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Chris -- 2025-05-10
‘all over sudden’ 2,760 ghits
‘all of a sudden’ 47,900,000
I first heard this from a native German speaker. But here are some hits on the web.
All over sudden, around 10 to 11am, we heard our people struggling to get inside Taj Hotel (Mumbai) to protest against Hu Jintao. ...
www.friendsoftibet.org/sofar/ bangalore/hu_protest_nov_19_2006.html – 10k –
I guess Steve had reported to Chicago that our group had a lot of work here and all over sudden there came 32 musicians from Chicago and spread all over …
www.gunterhampelmusic.de/ about_gunter/mygunterlife-4.html – 7k –
But all over sudden she disappeared. What has happened? The … At the end of October, all over sudden M141 could not be found at his nest anymore. ...
www.stripedmouse.com/documents/MousePortraits.pdf
Apparently ‘all of the sudden’ is another controversial variant with 48,500,000 ghits.
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