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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Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Head over to our Barkley Marathons guide to learn about everything the rules, the course, the history and lore, and why an event that sounds an awful lot like orienteering actually isn’t orienteering at all.
—Abby Levene, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
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Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Head over to our Barkley Marathons guide to learn about everything the rules, the course, the history and lore, and why an event that sounds an awful lot like orienteering actually isn’t orienteering at all.
—Abby Levene, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
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