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.