America's first dictionary -- Noah Webster's A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language -- was published 200 years ago and also introduced a crop of fresh words that have now become familiar.
A change of management would produce a crop of problems.
The present round of industrial policy will no doubt produce some modest successes-and a crop of whopping failures.
In Robert Enke, Hanover also have arguably the best of a crop of very good goalkeepers in Germany and this looks set to be an even better year for the club.
The site where Red Star once stood is already surrounded by a crop of expensive high-rise apartment towers and a new subway station.
The breeding herds annually produce and sell a crop of calves.
Spring is a crop of hope, dream and ideal planted with sweat, diligence and wisdom.
"He obeyed. He made a furrow in the ground, and planted the teeth, destined to produce a crop of men."
General Luck was a very experienced army pilot who was trained initially as a crop officer.
They last very little longer than a rainbow and, returning in a day or two, one finds no flowers, only hard green pods and a crop of odd-cut leaves.