Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
None of something means not even a small amount of it. None of a group of people or things means not even one of them.
She did ~ of the maintenance on the vehicle itself...
None of us knew how to treat her.
QUANT: QUANT of def-n
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None is also a pronoun.
I turned to bookshops and libraries seeking information and found ~...
No one could imagine a great woman painter. None had existed yet...
Only two cars produced by Austin-Morris could reach 100 mph and ~ could pass the 10-second acceleration test.
PRON
2.
If you say that someone will have ~ of something, or is having ~ of something, you mean that they refuse to accept it. (INFORMAL)
He knew his own mind and was having ~ of their attempts to keep him at home.
PHRASE: be inflects, PHR n
3.
You use ~ too in front of an adjective or adverb in order to emphasize that the quality mentioned is not present. (FORMAL)
He was ~ too thrilled to hear from me at that hour...
Her hand grasped my shoulder, ~ too gently.
PHRASE: PHR adj/adv emphasis
4.
You use ~ the to say that someone or something does not have any more of a particular quality than they did before.
You could end up committed to yet another savings scheme and ~ the wiser about managing your finances...
He became convinced that his illness was purely imaginary: that made it ~ the better.
= no
PHRASE: PHR compar
5.
~ of your business: see business
~ other than: see other
second to ~: see second