an awful lot

idiom

informal

: a large amount

They lost an awful lot of money.

She does an awful lot of talking.

: very much

I like him an awful lot.

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People Stream Back Toward Southern Lebanon By Paul Martin 0 My very recent encounters with Hezbollah and with Lebanese army intelligence officers have taught me an awful lot about the interplay of Lebanon's men with guns—and what this may presage for the immediate future. —

Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 Yes, an awful lot of Prosecco is not designed for greatness and never will be. —

Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 To some, however, the unsolicited messages are not just annoying, but somewhat alarming because, in some cases, the senders — strangers — seem to know an awful lot of what seems like personal information. —

Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2024 Those intentions put an awful lot of weight on a single musical, expected to achieve the noble and yet vague act of humanization as well as tell a good story. —

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