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quantificateurs + N

many / a few + N

nom collectif (people)

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au pluriel régulier (reasons)

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au pluriel régulier irrégulier (feet)

The Guardian Media p. 29 10 July 2006

The Guardian University 2006 p. 10 18 August 2006

LABOR:

How Many Joblessadjectif nominalisé ?

Monday, Mar. 17, 1930

Time

How many workmen were jobless

throughout the land last week

not even the President of the U.S. knew.

Government officials made guesses on unemployment,

colored more by partisan politics than by positive facts.

Senators flayed the Department of Labor

for its paltry system of gathering labor statistics.

The City of Milwaukee opened soup kitchens.

Bread lines stretched out in Brooklyn.

Manhattan's Bowery swarmed with sullen idle men.

Communists staged demonstrations

throughout the U.S. as well as abroad (see p. 21).

Though these things combined

to make the Hoover Administration

acutely unemployment-conscious,

none of them answered the question:

how many jobless?