1.   Japetus alone possessed a distinctive geography, and a very strange one indeed.

2.   The calm was a strange one - a distant memory.

3.   It was a nasty attack and a very strange one.

4.   He looks after the mentally retarded man, Lennie, and their relationship is a strange one.

5.   As buyouts go, it was a strange one.

6.   A mighty strange one.

7.   Against that backdrop, the role of acquiree seems a strange one for U.S. Filter.

8.   Every team has to make tough cuts, but this was a strange one, especially this late in the game.

9.   He stared back as if I were the strange one.