an awful lot
idiom
informal
1
: a large amount
They lost an awful lot of money.
She does an awful lot of talking.
2
: very much
I like him an awful lot.
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Most significant, though, was the presence of Egil Olsen, a manager derided as a dinosaur at the time but who looks, in hindsight, an awful lot like a pioneer.
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Rory Smith, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
Well, some year (soon) had to be the year, and ’24 saw an awful lot of streaming-subscriber growth thanks to password-sharing crackdowns.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 4 Feb. 2025
That's an awful lot of ground to cover, considering that season 1 took place over only the span of a year.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2025
There’s an awful lot of callbacks to it that are mostly intentional, but some of them are unintentional.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025
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Rory Smith, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
Well, some year (soon) had to be the year, and ’24 saw an awful lot of streaming-subscriber growth thanks to password-sharing crackdowns.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 4 Feb. 2025
That's an awful lot of ground to cover, considering that season 1 took place over only the span of a year.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2025
There’s an awful lot of callbacks to it that are mostly intentional, but some of them are unintentional.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for an awful lot
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“An awful lot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/an%20awful%20lot. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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