The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long.

In recent years, the district of Fooching has sent out about 20,000 people, or about one thirty-third of its total population.

Developments in 'cyberia', the Internet and so on have both inspired and been interpreted by theories of postmodernity.