a lot

Example Sentences

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It helped that a lot of the guys liked “The Office” and a lot of the women liked “The Mindy Project” and “Sex Lives of College Girls” because they’re all kind of young.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

“What you’ll see is there are a lot of different systems in here, and these systems don’t necessarily talk to each other—they don’t show the same picture,” said Maj.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

He added that private-credit investors had “taken away a lot of the bottom end of the risk curve.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

But litigation and regulatory investigations are costly, and a lot of companies, corporate parents, make the decision that it is actually less painful to settle and to capitulate than it is to fight.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

Except a lot of longing on my part.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith