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#1 2018-02-28 07:22:42

DavidTuggy
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a serious of things

the investigator goes from a serious of (possibly subtle, interesting and scientifically valid) measurements to the inference that there is a single (immutable as well as hereditary) aspect of reality underlying the measurements.

In 1 Corinthians 6:10-11 where a serious of masculine nouns for different kinds of people (thieves, greedy people, drunkards, etc.) is referred to by a neuter demonstrative because it they are being thought of not as people but as “character types” or something of the sort and it is translated “you used to be such things.”

We have the first of the basic primer serious, that book with the light green cover.

It is a kind of comma used only to separate items in a serious, but not for the other purposes commas are used for.

his work is a serious of devious adventures, but as a man he is most honorable and decent.

The three suspects were among 13 gang members charged with a serious of crimes including seven murders in March 2017.

Records show he returned to a life of crime just five weeks later, went on the run, and committed a serious of crimes across three counties, leaving a trail long enough for prosecutors to build eight different cases against him.

This series of crimes has not yet passed from the memory – a serious of crimes which appear to have originated from the same source, and which at the same time created as much repugnance in people everywhere as the murders of Jack the Ripper

When it’s a serious of crimes it seems vaguely eggcornish; in the other cases not so much.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#2 2018-03-01 03:26:52

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
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Re: a serious of things

When it’s a serious of crimes it seems vaguely eggcornish; in the other cases not so much.

Curious. And among such crimes, you don’t get much more serious than a serial killer. A little spelling support, then, for seriousness eclipsing the series in the following:

some body has come back to the yoshi family and trust me he/she is not nice he/ she is a serioul killer and will butcher anyone and every one who gets in his/her way.

news:lock your doors and close your windows a serioul killer is on the loose on camp crystal lake do not …

So lets see…we’re…going with Thrax or Kuri. thus Luceon wuold be pissed and he’d go all serioul killer crazy on Michael.

She was a serioul killer, in the eyes of the law and many people to, to me and my partener she was a human being a good one to, but all she was trying to do was survive.

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#3 2018-03-03 10:20:26

yanogator
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From: Ohio
Registered: 2007-06-07
Posts: 237

Re: a serious of things

I think that many of the “serious” incidents are auto-correct related. “Serioul”, on the other hand, is more serious.


“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

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