awful lot
Frequency: 7.895.5 per million words
a very large amount
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Examples (10)
- I had an awful lot of work to do yesterday.
- It takes an awful lot of patience to teach young children.
- She spent an awful lot of money on her new car.
- We learned an awful lot from their presentation.
- There's an awful lot of traffic on the roads this morning.
- He's been through an awful lot lately, so be kind to him.
- They inherited an awful lot of debt from their parents.
- You have an awful lot to learn about this new system.
- It means an awful lot to me that you came to support me.
- Building that house required an awful lot of planning and effort.