great deal
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"It's all a great deal slower than in cancer research, for example."
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
Sometimes, procrastination is someone’s way of avoiding a fear that they’ll owe the government a great deal of money.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
Part of what he was experiencing, which he knows a great deal more about now, was feeling “the secrets that were the engine propelling my family.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
By then, he said, "she had already seen that the Nazis started war on the neighbouring countries" and "seen a great deal about where things are headed".
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
It was a lot like the men’s dare, although Mother and Sister Gladys sometimes attended, and Nhamo learned a great deal from the conversations.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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