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• The last four years, the Rangers spent an awful lot of time on the second step.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
• All right, so that’s an awful lot of worst habits right there, huh?
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
• That seems a bit far-fetched, but the point made; there would be an awful lot of rabbits.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2022
• That’s about ⅓ of our lives, and an awful lot of time to be miserable.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2022
• On that score, an awful lot of us are failing right now.
  — Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
• On a day trip that only had the president on the ground for a few hours, there was an awful lot of MLK.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
• There were an awful lot of dead ends, false starts and arguments over the tone of the show — the nature of the comedy.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2022
• For a team that lost a lot of one-run games, that’s an awful lot of charity to be handing out.
  — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
• To shave 28 minutes off Frodeno’s record, two minutes on the swim and three minutes on the run leaves an awful lot of work to be done on the bike.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 May 2022
• The 2023 Red Sox do an awful lot of celebrating for a team that’s finished last twice in three years and spent most of April in the basement.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• Three thousand years, to be honest, means an awful lot of longing.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• That means there is an awful lot of last-minute decision making going on, much of it based on the food that it will be paired with.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2023
• On the other hand, there’s an awful lot of publicity around this case.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
• On the face of it, that’s an awful lot of work and expenditure for the average bike commuter to be bothered with.
  — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• This pleasure has released her from an awful lot of baggage.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 18 June 2022
• There are an awful lot of characters for Reeves and his co-writer Peter Craig to keep control of.
  — Gregory Wakeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2022
• There are an awful lot of clouds predicted in San Antonio this week.
  — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Apr. 2023
• But both history and an awful lot of the evidence are on the Republicans’ side in 2022.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• Despite the fact that the CBD market has been in full swing going on three years now, there is still an awful lot of mystery surrounding the selection process.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
• There’s an awful lot of bit patterns in floating-point arithmetic no one ever uses.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2022
• Taking the mid-2022 addition of Whit Merrifield into account, the Blue Jays have added an awful lot of outs to the bottom half of the batting order.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• However there were an awful lot of people who did a lot of really great things, too: People who dared to challenge.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• There’s an awful lot of unsettling Scientology stuff (a whole lot of stuff ) around Tom Cruise.
  — Ethan Sapienza, Vulture, 12 May 2022
• Avruch: One of the things that films [often get wrong] is that an awful lot of women who are getting abortions already have several children.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
• That seems like an awful lot of forces to have on the border for an exercise and there was no notification of any sort of exercise either.
  — Veronica Stracqualursi and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
• That leaves an awful lot of time for a golfer’s mind to wander and interfere with the attentional demands of hitting successful shots.
  — Paul Christianson, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• Look, there are an awful lot of Russian oligarchs, business people out there whose assets are being seized, which can be used, in fact, to try to support the Ukrainians, for example.
  — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2022
• The banking information leads to the Postman's personal shopper, who reveals that there's been an awful lot of chemistry supplies on the to-do list recently.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 1 May 2023
• There’s an awful lot of history to cover in a show that runs just under two hours without intermission, and the effect is disorienting even in the best of productions.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• That’s the only explanation for the seven consecutive loss Indianapolis has taken in Jacksonville, a streak that includes an awful lot of Colts teams headed for the playoffs and Jaguars teams headed for a top-5 pick.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2022

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