Preposition: of

• note: HO HO 144/220/A49301A is a residuum of notes including various suggestions as to the apprehension of culprits.

Adjective modifier

• considerable: There remains, however, a considerable residuum of historical characters, whose existence may be inferred from earlier records.

• dry: In reality " the dry residuum " of the average student's knowledge is determined just by what was interesting at history lessons.

• large: This large residuum of reasonable disagreement leads on to the second response to the limit-setting problem.