From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishseries of somethingseries of somethingSERIESseveral events or actions of a similar type that happen one after the other the series of events that led to the outbreak of war The police are investigating a series of attacks in the area. There’s been a whole series of accidents on this road. → series
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a whole series of• A regular newsletter keeps people in touch and a whole series of social events are undertaken.• In contemporary Britain, a whole series of alternatives are offered.• Recently this liberalisation of trade has been checked, or at least slowed, by a whole series of actions.• By the end of his Government Baldwin was anxious to make a whole series of Cabinet changes.• There is now a need to rekindle the idea that teaching is a vocation which makes a whole series of complex demands.• It is better to use a poem which elaborates one visual experience and not a whole series of visual pictures.• This issue raises a whole series of complex methodological questions that are examined in some detail in P.A. Consultants' 1987 review.• I think it is going into your subconscious and picking up a whole series of signals. 