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• That seems a bit far-fetched, but the point made; there would be an awful lot of rabbits.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2022
• That’s about ⅓ of our lives, and an awful lot of time to be miserable.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2022
• For a team that lost a lot of one-run games, that’s an awful lot of charity to be handing out.
  — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
• On the other hand, there’s an awful lot of publicity around this case.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
• There’s an awful lot of bit patterns in floating-point arithmetic no one ever uses.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2022
• That means there is an awful lot of last-minute decision making going on, much of it based on the food that it will be paired with.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2023
• There were an awful lot of dead ends, false starts and arguments over the tone of the show — the nature of the comedy.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2022
• There are an awful lot of clouds predicted in San Antonio this week.
  — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Apr. 2023
• On the face of it, that’s an awful lot of work and expenditure for the average bike commuter to be bothered with.
  — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• On a day trip that only had the president on the ground for a few hours, there was an awful lot of MLK.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
• There are an awful lot of characters for Reeves and his co-writer Peter Craig to keep control of.
  — Gregory Wakeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2022
• That seems like an awful lot of forces to have on the border for an exercise and there was no notification of any sort of exercise either.
  — Veronica Stracqualursi and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
• That leaves an awful lot of time for a golfer’s mind to wander and interfere with the attentional demands of hitting successful shots.
  — Paul Christianson, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• To shave 28 minutes off Frodeno’s record, two minutes on the swim and three minutes on the run leaves an awful lot of work to be done on the bike.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 May 2022
• Cynicism is a default position in an awful lot of entertainment.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 10 June 2022
• There’s an awful lot of unsettling Scientology stuff (a whole lot of stuff ) around Tom Cruise.
  — Ethan Sapienza, Vulture, 12 May 2022
• But both history and an awful lot of the evidence are on the Republicans’ side in 2022.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• There’s an awful lot of history to cover in a show that runs just under two hours without intermission, and the effect is disorienting even in the best of productions.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• Despite the fact that the CBD market has been in full swing going on three years now, there is still an awful lot of mystery surrounding the selection process.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
• The 2023 Red Sox do an awful lot of celebrating for a team that’s finished last twice in three years and spent most of April in the basement.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• The banking information leads to the Postman's personal shopper, who reveals that there's been an awful lot of chemistry supplies on the to-do list recently.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 1 May 2023
• Look, there are an awful lot of Russian oligarchs, business people out there whose assets are being seized, which can be used, in fact, to try to support the Ukrainians, for example.
  — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2022
• There’s still an awful lot of it around in the underlying background presuppositions of North Atlantic political economy.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2022
• Taking the mid-2022 addition of Whit Merrifield into account, the Blue Jays have added an awful lot of outs to the bottom half of the batting order.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• More directly, the committee already has uncovered an awful lot of remarkably compelling evidence -- testimony from certain key insiders, the Mark Meadows texts, the fake elector certificates, and more.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
• That’s the only explanation for the seven consecutive loss Indianapolis has taken in Jacksonville, a streak that includes an awful lot of Colts teams headed for the playoffs and Jaguars teams headed for a top-5 pick.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2022