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Nader75 Posted 20 years ago
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after many searches on the web ... or ... after many searching on the web
  

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searches

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after many searches OF the web

or

after a lot of searching on the web
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Dejanm83after many searches OF the web
At Yahoo, in hits:

1,640 for "searches of the web"
156,000 for "searches on the web"

And, anyway, most would say:
after many web searches
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Dejanm83after a lot of searching on the web
Again at Yahoo:
21,000 for "much searching on the web" which is the recommended one, IMO, should one want to use "searching"
1,220 for "a lot of searching on the web"
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Marius Hancu
Dejanm83
after a lot of searching on the web
Again at Yahoo:
21,000 for "much searching on the web" which is the recommended one, IMO, should one want to use "searching"
1,220 for "a lot of searching on the web"

IMO
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Yoong Liat
Marius Hancu
Dejanm83
after a lot of searching on the web
Again at Yahoo:
21,000 for "much searching on the web" which is the recommended one, IMO, should one want to use "searching"
1,220 f
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Inchoateknowledge
searching is an adjective, and has not noun aspect.
It can be a noun all right:

  • http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F15F63E540C708CDDAE0894DE404482

    ... forces to do
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    Marius Hancu
    Inchoateknowledge
    searching is an adjective, and has not noun aspect.
    It can be a noun all right:

  • http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F15F63E540C7

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    Nader75after many searches on the web ... OK

    after many searching on the web Use "much" instead of "many" as searching is singular. To me, "After many searhings" also looks fine, but a native might tell whether it really is so.
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    Diamondrg
    Nader75after many searches on the web ... OK

    after many searching on the web "searching" here is singular, so use "searchings"


    A general rule for gerunds is that gerunds are singular.

    However, a few gerunds can be countable and have a plural
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