Help with Find and Replace

I'm having a problem in trying to edit some books etc that retain particular text in the html file that I would like to remove using the find and replace function.

An example is.... (88 of 243)20-2-2006 21:47:27</p>

There are obviously 243 occurrences of this text and rather than replace them one by one is it there a 'wildcard' I could use to find and replace all occurrences? Date and time stay the same for all 243 entries, but the *** of 243 changes every 100-150 lines or so.

I'm very new to html editing and anything other than a fairly simple solution would be beyond my limited capabilities.

Thanks in anticipation.