(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 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 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.
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.
As much as necessary; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks"
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.
6 Let's also agree that London needs new homes and plenty of them.
7 Children need to drink plenty of water to meet their intellectual potential.
8 But there's plenty of case law on the books about animal rights.
9 No doubt 'Hughie' will boot home plenty of points for the Paradise.
10 There'd be plenty of time for family, friends, and new boyfriends then-right
11 There's been plenty of weeks and the time hasn't come quite yet.
12 She said staff had good training and plenty of personal protective equipment.
13 It's a long way, but there's plenty of money in the case.
14 That was no problem, however, as there were plenty of alternative routes.
15 In the Orient Express we shall have plenty of time for talk.
16 Since she'd arrived she'd seen plenty of examples of Signora Dirienzo's work.
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