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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In the meantime, there’s an awful lot of football to watch.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Relationships can endure an awful lot, the play asserts, but not false intimacy—not the pretense of something that should be sacred.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
The last shooting day was a very crowded scene that had an awful lot of the Blue Bloods principles, but no real time to sit together.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
That's an awful lot of games that have to break a certain way for chaos to reign in the SEC.
—Chase Goodbread, The Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2024
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Relationships can endure an awful lot, the play asserts, but not false intimacy—not the pretense of something that should be sacred.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
The last shooting day was a very crowded scene that had an awful lot of the Blue Bloods principles, but no real time to sit together.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
That's an awful lot of games that have to break a certain way for chaos to reign in the SEC.
—Chase Goodbread, The Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2024
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