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Free sign upThe phrase "a lot of mysterious" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically used to describe something that is abundant in mystery or enigmatic qualities, but it requires a noun to follow "mysterious" to be grammatically correct.
Example: "There are a lot of mysterious events happening in the town lately."
Alternatives: "many mysterious" or "a great deal of mystery".
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"We have a lot of mysterious situations in life in Italy," said Antonio Sellerio, whose family owns the Sicilian publishing house, Sellerio, that introduced Inspector Montalbano.
But: 'The red car drove slowly down the road, under the blue sky.' That's a sentence that's pure information, but – since we are mysterious creatures and our minds work by instantaneously assembling things into narratives – it also has a lot of mysterious and even ominous potential".
"There are still a lot of mysterious disappearances; we are no nearer to knowing what is causing them".
Create the impression you have a lot of mysterious activities and hobbies.
See if she posts a lot of mysterious messages that allude to the fact that she's dating someone.
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Simply this: a plan to load almost all the burden of fiscal adjustment onto Americans under age 55, while largely exempting Americans over age 55 … Once you begin to think of the Tea Party as a vehicle for advancing the economic interests of the old against the young … a lot of otherwise mysterious behaviors suddenly begin to make sense.
A lot of us get mysterious headaches.
"Because there's a bunch of foreigners that want to park their money somewhere - in a lot of cases, for mysterious reasons - and yet they are paying all types of crazy money and that has forced the average person out," he continued.
Maybe that's why no art has ever really felt foreign to me, which doesn't mean that a lot of it isn't mysterious.
Looking back, some it seems to be rubbish, but a lot of it is still mysterious and wonderful and still attracts me - not so much in the magic, but in the ideas underneath.
A lot of it's really mysterious.
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