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