a great deal

idiom

: much : a lot
Things could be a great deal worse.

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This includes extreme sports, which requires a great deal of training time and lessons. R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024 Clearly Patek has done a great deal of modification to the Cubitus movement, but the crucial placement of the sub-dials does not appear to have been modified. Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2024 Jimmy Sangster's script for Maniac owes a few debts to classic French noir such as Diabolique and Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows, and director Michael Carreras is owed a great deal of praise for crafting a film that contains the same amount of excitement and devious pleasure as those movies. Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024 Trent Williams hasn’t given the 49ers success following a bye a great deal of thought. Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for a great deal 

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“A great deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20great%20deal. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.

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