Very much; a great deal; to a large extent.(adverb)
Often; frequently(adverb)
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Use "a lot" in a sentence
"“Are there a lot of stores that supply bugs, Mr. Ragle?”"
"The prosecution put out a lot of dots, but they couldn't connect them, says Lawrence Kobilinsky, chairman of the Department of Sciences at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York."
"Like a lot of the top poker pros, Brunson had been an athlete when he was younger, having earned a full basketball scholarship to Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene."