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A GREAT DEAL
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To a very great degree or extent
Example:
this would help a great deal
Synonyms:
a good deal; a great deal; a lot; lots; much; very much
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Sense 2
Meaning:
Frequently or in great quantities
Example:
I don't travel much
Synonyms:
a great deal; much; often
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Context examples:
Dear Lizzy! Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I'll forget all the bad and remember only the good, for I did enjoy a great deal, and thank you very much for letting me go.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I would have given a great deal to have hailed him and told him how we were placed, but it was too dangerous, lest we should be heard.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The master went out on horseback a great deal, and to accompany him was one of White Fang's chief duties in life.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Diana was a great deal taller than I: she put her hand on my shoulder, and, stooping, examined my face.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Studying the placenta in humans is challenging: it is time-consuming, subject to a great deal of variability and potentially risky for the fetus.
(Researchers design placenta-on-a-chip to better understand pregnancy, NIH)
My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Although IBS can cause a great deal of discomfort, it does not harm the intestines.
(Irritable Bowel Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
You are a great deal too necessary at Hartfield to be spared to Abbey-Mill.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
