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It's not comfortable for me to see two "of" in the sentence:

"The locations of the lobes of the lungs"

Could I say "lobes' lungs"?

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    There's absolutely nothing wrong, unnatural or unpleasant about two ofs in a sentence.
    – curiousdannii
    Commented Oct 4, 2015 at 8:01
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    The most economical solution is 'lung lobe location', but it doesn't seem like any improvement.
    – user207421
    Commented Oct 4, 2015 at 10:13

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The lobes' lungs would be the lungs of the lobes. What you want is the other way round

the locations of the lungs' lobes

However, that does not strike me as any sort of improvement over the locations of the lobes of the lungs. And frankly, I find the doubly threefold alliteration of locations/lobes/lungs a lot more annoying than your two ofs.

Rewrite. If you've already mentioned the lungs, delete them here: presumably anyone who reads your piece will know that if you've got lungs, they've got lobes. Or use a different word:

the locations of the pulmonary lobes

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