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.