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The phrase "alternative of course" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to suggest that there is an alternative option that is obvious or expected, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "If you don't like the first option, the alternative, of course, is to choose the second one."
Alternatives: "another option, naturally" or "an alternative, obviously".
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That beat the alternative, of course.
(It's not the only alternative, of course).
There is an alternative, of course: hang the numbers again.
There is an alternative, of course, but one that requires even more vision.
The alternative, of course, being the mess inherited from Labour and their ongoing incompetence.
The alternative, of course, is to try to piece everything together after they're gone.
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There are alternatives, of course, like regulating emissions directly.
There are cheaper alternatives, of course, but all are going to hit the family finances — unless the children have fit, healthy (and willing) grandparents who live locally.
There isn't a way of delivering it with the full range of functionality that we have, except Curl". There could be alternatives, of course, such as Sun Microsystems Javaandand Microsoft's emerging.Net strategy.
There are alternatives, of course.
The Russians, that is, were not merely repressive by choice, but trapped within the confines of their language incapable of imagining an alternative... Of course, there is a word for freedom: svoboda..
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