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I have come across this sentence in a CNN report. "We can't smell them because we have a measly five million sensors in our noses, but dogs have up to 300 million sensors in their noses."

"...a measly five million sensors..." ?

When can we use the article "a" before a plural noun? Could this be a mistake?

Tom Lee
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    This question has already been asked on stackexchange, see http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/252173/indefinite-articles-used-with-plural-nouns-it-was-an-amazing-two-days. – Azami May 27 '16 at 08:20
  • The duplicate mentioned has good answers to this OP's question. – ab2 May 27 '16 at 08:37

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