BBC News grammatical triumphs
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The disappearance of Peter Falconio and the brave escape of his former girlfriend Joanne Lees have produced millions of column inches in newspapers around the world.
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Bullshit. Winston Churchill's "The Second World War" is over two million words. I've got a copy. It's six thick books (5-600 pages each, I'm guessing). "Millions of column inches" would therefore be (at a minimum) these six thick books multiplied by the number of words in a column inch. Brief research tells me this is reckoned to be about 25. So 150 thick books. I somehow doubt the author seriously wants to claim that this much has been written about the case.