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I deny that of is here the sign of the possessive, and affirm that it is taken partitively, in all examples of this sort.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

All these may also be used partitively; as, "Nearly all of us."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold