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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'drove of' is not a correctly formed phrase to use in written English.
The correct form of the phrase would be 'a drove of', which is a collective noun used to refer to a group of animals, typically a herd of cattle or a flock of sheep or birds. For example, you could say: "A drove of sheep was slowly making its way across the hillside."
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I spot a drove of three males bobbing their heads as they are dive-bombed by a lapwing protecting her nest.
The Economist's readers seem similarly cautious: asked whether the release by Wikileaks of a huge drove of diplomatic cables would harm the United States's ability to advance its foreign policy in Latin America, they split down the middle, with 48% saying yes and 52% saying no.This week's Economist Asks question addresses the agreement reached in climate change talks in Cancún.
Each 'doing' material clause takes different participants as the Goals (e.g., seedlings, a harrow, a drove of buffalo).
A drove of Greek cabinet members will be heading to Moscow.
Then, at end of the ice age perhaps a million years later, the sudden warming seems to have made it too hot for a drove of cold-loving brachiopods and trilobites, those scimitar-headed crawling creatures familiar from the Cambrian Period.
The only thing that entered was a drove of flies.
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"Maybe we can drive out of it".
People driven out of the Hamptons.
Everyone else was driven out of business!
Drive out of the train yard.
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