(Often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.
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Examples for "deal "
Examples for "deal "
1 Health professionals deal with people's personal health information every day, Bloomfield said.
2 A deal would not eliminate violence, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said.
3 Mr Power said it would mean a great deal to the industry.
4 Mr Robinson said children needed active support to deal with their problems.
5 State media outlet China National Radio reported the deal earlier this week.
1 At the moment GPs know a lot about families, especially problem ones.
2 But there's also a lot of hard work involved, often physical work.
3 There is a lot of energy from Israel to Europe, Margalit said.
4 I just really want to let a lot of people ask questions.
5 He said: A lot of good things came from that second innings.
1 Evidently, no 'complete solution' to the 'Jewish problem' was yet in sight .
2 For, once society has seen the problem, the solution is in sight .
3 Today we answered John's question about sight and Karen's query about violence.
4 I need you to go back to work on the sight problem.
5 Besides Europe's debt crisis, which seems to have no resolution in sight .
1 Europe too certainly has plenty to answer for vis-a-vis underdevelopment in Africa.
2 Factor in plenty of sea days: they're important for recharging weary batteries.
3 Yet the new approach leaves China plenty of scope to nix investigations.
4 There are plenty of fish in the sea: This is almost true.
5 A perfect All-Ireland semi-final really; victory yet plenty still to work on.
1 The days and weeks that followed saw mass withdrawals of food products.
2 He said a mass burial was held on Sunday for health reasons.
3 Not a problem for hunters, but a major problem for mass shooters.
4 Year after year, I witness the excavation of the new mass graves.
5 Unfortunately, the information is only as good as mass transit systems provide.
1 He said: We need to use this: this was never our mountain .
2 Ye shall return home, and ye shall become one with the mountain . '
3 The western mountain town of Zintan is effectively outside central government control.
4 It was later that year when I climbed my first physical mountain .
5 Sure, you get free lift tickets and free rein on the mountain .
1 Britain currently pays about £40bn a year to finance its debt pile .
2 There'll be a pile of paper on my desk that needs attention.
3 The questions pile on top of one another: Do you believe him?
4 Now the pile of paper was not just burning; it was blazing.
5 One way is to have market participants pile on to the trend.
1 The mess left behind was 50 times greater than the previous year.
2 SWITHIN: In truth; it does remind one of the mess of pottage.
3 Regardless, this aspect could lead to great message or a great mess .
4 The upper structure on the top of the brigade - mess also fell in.
5 I called Harlan, thinking he'd come home and left behind a mess .
1 Yes, yes, of course she is.' Mrs Castaway stirs the glue - pot pensively.
2 How are state officials watching over the nation's largest legal pot market?
3 They are the same as the ordinary pot in every other particular.
4 ERROR attempts to extricate a pot from the nails in the shelves.
5 The remainder of the beans were left in the pot for breakfast.
1 North Korean media continued to heap praise on Kim's leadership, Lim said.
2 It is, of course, wrong to heap all the blame on Thatcher.
3 The rider lay in a heap at the foot of the tree.
4 He tangled his feet in the blanket and fell in a heap .
5 Fill this into the tomatoes and heap it up in the centers.
1 Early in the morning the poor creatures had begun to flock in.
2 Fang had to get as far away from the flock as possible.
3 Nor were the Uniackes and the Invernesses the bell-wethers of the flock .
4 The upbeat employment data led global investors to flock to higher-yielding assets.
5 To-day, perhaps the most joyous of the flock lies in the earth.
1 No surprise: having the government step in launched a raft of innovation.
2 Libya's coastguard denied in a statement it abandoned the raft at sea.
3 It's among a raft of recommendations included in the group's final report.
4 The migrants were drifting on an inflatable raft in the Mediterranean sea.
5 He was positive the light was in the cabin on the raft .
1 And then of course you need a complete new computer science stack .
2 Among the stack of papers were several early etchings of Matterson House.
3 All supported water storage, but said the numbers did not stack up.
4 That stack of paper there is requests filed in the last week.
5 They will also want to know what has happened to his stack .
1 A slew of recent research points to the need for urgent action.
2 A slew of guidebooks that set a new standard for quality followed.
3 The Central Statistics Office unleashed a slew of economic data this week.
4 A slew of products now address the problem-butthey don't come cheap.
5 A slew of large issues is in the pipeline for this year.
1 We got a new batch of declassified material a few weeks ago.
2 The first batch of layoff notices went out last week, Gaulrapp said.
3 We used to batch test; we stopped because there were no failures.
4 To test this possibility, Garner sent out a new batch of surveys.
5 The second batch will be paid upon completion of the verification process.
1 It was a new working year, mint fresh and full of hope.
2 Recent press coverage of Weinstein's strategy has suggested he made a mint .
3 Even the fresh mint was in the tankard on the old sideboard.
4 Add frozen peas, mint and sugar and simmer for five more minutes.
5 The addition of the pea and mint puree also adds great flavour.
1 We put in a peck at a time, in a dozen places.
2 They peck when I even think about moving but that's not real.
3 A bird-like peck at the inkwell, and the pen began to scratch-scratch-scratch.
4 Down came the pipe, and with it a peck of greasy soot.
5 With that and the flash-light we could get a peck of them.
1 To be honest, Rylance wad second favourite to Sylvester Stallone last year.
2 It formed the wad of the pistol that was in _your hand.
3 Militants said a ransom had been paid, but this wad never confirmed.
4 Or even the feds, given that wad of money in the closet.
5 Took a wad of paper towels from the dispenser and soaked them.
1 It also flagged a spate of store openings in Europe and China.
2 The deal follows a spate of other recent cross-border law firm mergers.
3 Private equity-owned insurance brokerages saw a spate of deals in recent years.
4 Brazil has suffered a spate of partisan violence during the polarized campaign.
5 REUTERS: What's driving the recent spate of bankruptcy filings by restaurant companies?
1 They saw it out in sheets no muckle thicker than writin' paper.
2 And if I got a letter, it mightna give me muckle comfort.
3 If it had been me, I would not have been muckle cheered.
4 It's no muckle pleesure we're like to hae in this het place.
5 Since being acquent' wi' Sandy, I hae gathered a muckle new vocabulary.
1 Whatever the homeless warriors may have done, they be now in mickle need.
2 That word pleased them, and they I held the bridal with mickle joy.
3 From their foes they had already suffered mickle stress of war.
4 Better had he left it undone, for mickle is his blame.
5 I heard nor sid nowt that's dow, but mickle that's conny and gladsome.
1 We ran into a passel of those, and steered clear of them.
2 There were likely a passel of bedrolls and blankets on the horses.
3 Some says as how it was sot by a passel o' boys.
4 The wonder's that you lived through such a passel of close shaves.
5 There's a particularly avid passel of costly services that specialize in expert answers.
1 The rest of the evening was quite a little triumph for her.
2 Lorry was now leaning back in the seat, quite a little mystified.
3 They both studied that objection in silence for quite a little while.
4 He had gradually got together quite a little menagerie of pet names.
5 Pierre has taken his big basket; he is quite a little man.
1 The Powerball Plus jackpot is also building up to a tidy sum .
2 In just a few hands of Baccarat, he'd won a tidy sum .
3 Five thousand pounds is a tidy sum , no doubt, in Langona especially.
4 A very tidy sum for the lucky treasure hunter that unearths it.
5 The spam-fighting industry stands to make a tidy sum in the coming years.
1 But with great responsibility comes, well, not a whole lot of power.
2 I'd go so far as to say a whole lot of value.
3 Long story short, I got access to a whole lot of info.
4 His second game in England's top flight went a whole lot better.
5 I think pretty soon I'm going to feel a whole lot better.
1 Suddenly a whole slew of problems familiar to the network security world appear.
2 Only Jacques was supposed to bring a whole slew of them.
3 First a few, then a few more, than a whole slew .
4 There's a whole slew of Marvel superhero movies slated over the next five years.
5 The folks at Springboard have a whole slew of stretch goals ahead of them.
1 Julian Barnes: 'Do you expect Europe to cut us a good deal ?
2 Market analysts said it would be a good deal for AB InBev.
3 Of course, a good deal depends on the aims of a publication.
4 It entails a good deal more work than the average college application.
5 I got a really good deal on some computers from the future.
1 Mr Power said it would mean a great deal to the industry.
2 Organised sport has meant a great deal of different things throughout history.
3 However, there is a great deal of information available on the Web.
4 A great deal , however, could happen to upset that plan before 2021.
5 There is, of course, a great deal of work to be done.
1 He returned presently and deposited a hatful of nuts in her lap.
2 If Rubin keep defending like that Barça will have a hatful tonight.
3 The sorely afflicted animal licked his lips, and looked up for another hatful .
4 One could buy a hatful of Koh-i-Noors with the same money, no doubt.
5 So on this day, when Joe appeared with a hatful , there was excitement.
6 Six hundred and fifty miles on a hatful of provisions.
7 Take a hatful of pine shavings and remove the hat.
8 So he picked up one hatful , and told Mr. Woodchuck to carry the other.
9 The reference to Mr Ahern's remarks lay deep in a veritable hatful of chuckles.
10 Also a hatful of money was to be made of this job, managed snugly.
11 It only needs a hatful of rumours to set Jerusalemites at one another's throats.
12 Come up, boys, and get each a hatful of dollars.
13 Come down off your art perch, Carry, and let's land that hatful of dollars.
14 Has had a hatful of enemies, among them are such members of the Police Dept.
15 They were nearly always in control without creating a hatful of chances, yet they still
16 Cardinal Ranulf might as well have asked for the moon or a hatful of stars.
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