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Usage of 'incredible'



 
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Usage of 'incredible' #1 (permalink) Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:49 am   Usage of 'incredible'
 

Please look at this:"The factory produces an incredible 100 cars per hour.''
I saw this in Longman dictionary and wondered why they use ''an'' here because ''100 cars'' is plural.
Please explain it for me.
Thanks in advance .
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Usage of 'incredible' #2 (permalink) Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:58 am   Usage of 'incredible'
 

an incredible amount/number
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Usage of 'incredible' #3 (permalink) Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:59 am   Usage of 'incredible'
 

So it has to do with ''of'' ?
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Usage of 'incredible' #4 (permalink) Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:00 am   Usage of 'incredible'
 

duc wrote:
So it has to do with ''of'' ?

With a number/an amount
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Usage of 'incredible' #5 (permalink) Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:02 am   Usage of 'incredible'
 

I mean ''a number/ amount of''(but I still don't think they are so careless to make that mistake)
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Usage of 'incredible' #6 (permalink) Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:04 am   Usage of 'incredible'
 

duc wrote:
I mean ''a number/ amount of''(but I still don't think they are so careless to make that mistake)

100 can be seen as an amount.
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Usage of 'incredible' #7 (permalink) Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:15 am   Usage of 'incredible'
 

Oh,thank you very much.First I misunderstood your explanation but now I make it out very clearly.
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Usage of 'incredible' #8 (permalink) Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:03 am   Usage of 'incredible'
 

And I want to ask whether this sentence :"The factory produces an incredible 100 cars per hour.'' sounds natural to you.
Some help of native speaker,please ?
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