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Example sentences for a lot
Suites are great, but sitting closer to the action is a lot better as a sports fan.
Turns out there's a lot of chemistry to consider when making meringue.
But scientists are losing a lot of the data, say researchers in a wide range of disciplines.
Americans have gained a lot of weight in the past few decades.
There is a lot more news out there, but the audience for it is much smaller.
Okay, it's not a point of view that leaves a lot of room for canned tuna.
Some people are saying that there's a lot of noise and a lot of them are going to fail.
There are a lot of ways to study a painting, and one of the best is to get to know the painter.
People think of you predominantly as an actor, but you've done a lot of other things.
The process of growing the crops, making fertilizers and pesticides, and processing the plants into fuel consumes a lot of energy.
The researchers admit that their humor program still needs a lot of work.
There are a lot of brain training games that you can play to improve the fitness of your brain.
Unfortunately, such chemotherapy kills a lot of healthy cells as well.
All these super-Jupiters being found have a lot of gravity, and it's possible they have big moons.
There are a lot of political metaphors in this movie.
We do a lot of vocabulary, a lot of reading, a lot of math.
We've spent a lot of time with our chickens, and we're pretty sure that they don't recognize us.
Empty hives are causing a lot of worry about some important food crops.
My ears have seen a lot of earbuds to carry music into my head.
The idea was to point out that a lot of people were finding spurious correlations in meaningless data.
Both had put rather a lot of money where their mouths were, and that money was talking, loudly.
If heat were visible, we'd see a lot of frenzied motion.
Your breath can tell a lot more about you than whether you brushed your teeth this morning or have been drinking alcohol.
People in intensive care units with injured lungs need a lot of medical help.
In my last week in the apartment, I spent a lot of time packing and watching.
There was a lot of crying, sticky hands and vanilla- and chocolate-stained clothing.
They might need a lot of remedial courses en route to a job, but they may have relatively few scheduling concerns.
Using purely chemical systems would also take a lot of energy, which early extraterrestrial outposts will likely lack.
In a way, people don't know a lot about it, but they're intrigued by it.
Unfortunately, though the task is smaller, there are several reasons why it could be a lot harder.
So the tree of life is adding a lot of detail, and it's also getting a time line.
Watching people eat is a lot more interesting than watching people pray.
When they poked one of these holes in the bottom of the ocean, the hole began sucking in seawater-a lot of seawater.
We've heard a lot about the dissatisfaction of progressives.
The government's reaction showed a lot of nervousness about how much opposition it can tolerate.
Yes, maybe some of it is behavioral, but a lot of it is likely genetic.
He had a lot of time to think about these things because he was an insomniac.
It won't be perfect, but it will be a lot better.
With so much personal information now in play, a lot of people are nervous about who owns it and what they'll do with it.
Questions that do not require a lot to ask and do not require a lot to answer.
Scientists can learn a lot by using imaging equipment and by making other observations.
Although you read and edit a lot of fiction, you write only nonfiction.
We used to find a lot of this in program-notes, and unhappily it still hangs on in some music departments and conservatories.
There are a lot of discoveries we're going to make in space using both robotic vehicles and human missions.
Musicians for kids and their parents are a lot cooler than they used to be.
As you say, she was so prolific and her works garnered a lot of attention.
Producing that enormous, frilly inflorescence takes a lot of effort.
After giving it a lot of thought, he decided to close the business and focus on writing.
There are a lot available, and it's probably the model crab fishery for the world.
The new social network is proving popular, but it still has a lot to prove.
It turns out there are a lot of ways to eat a salad.
We had a lot of animals around the house, and my grandparents had a farm.
He says a lot of people get it backwards because they don't realize what dogs really need.
They're in a setting of an oriental harem, in a large oval room with divans and a lot of cushions around the walls.
In doing so, they can reveal a lot about our sense of self.
There are a lot more affluent persons than in the top one percent.
As the price of emission permits increases, kangaroo harvesting would become a lot cheaper than livestock farming.
Novel displays and myriad coordinated radios could make your cell phone a lot more entertaining and useful.
Forte is an upper-echelon running back, but you can find a decent running back in a lot of places.
At the same time, a lot of planting was going on.
If the area was attracting a lot of people, maybe someone with stone working skills arrived and taught others.
Junior faculty members have a lot to lose and a lot to gain by being on dissertation committees.
It also removed a lot of pressure by not stating a goal beyond letting things happen.
One suspects she's received a lot of extremely odd fan mail.
Most of us spend a lot of time talking online, but those conversations are scattered all over the place.
Social shopping is a buzz phrase you'll be hearing a lot about soon.
People who live in a region often know a lot about its environment.
There are a lot of reasons, none of which will be affected by streaming.
There is a lot of empirical evidence on the soothing effects of many types of background sounds.
The fight was probably about a lot of different things at once.
There's a good reason for that: the mobile web has been getting a lot easier to use.
Clearly, a lot of gamers would rather cure cancer while they're gaming than do nothing while they're gaming.
Also, the earthquake came first and attracted quite a lot of attention, as well.
Not to mention that you have to weed around those things and end up getting poked a lot, too.
It's easy but fun and doesn't require a lot of work.
We spend a lot of time to think of ways to do things differently.
These herbs are food-stuff, and with the proper foods, you can prevent a lot of pain and illnesses.
It takes a lot longer than that for us to get to the actual core narrative of the movie.
Belgians definitely eat a lot of mussels and fries but they have probably some of the best food in the world.
We could've gone a lot faster.
Actually, a lot of innovative things are happening with sound these days.
The labor isn't always free, but it costs a lot less than paying traditional employees.
Today expectant parents concerned about the diseases that could afflict their unborn children don't have a lot of options.
She enjoys learning, she said, and she's learned how to run a lot of the different machines.
There is always something if not a lot to learn by watching a circus-one is both amazed by and sorry for the animals.
Within an organization, he says, there's usually a lot of available data.
The splash or splatter of color makes a lot more sense when you understand the rage or whimsy or heart behind it.
It's still a lot of fun for me to be an entertainer.
You're thinking a little about the report on your desk and a lot about lunch.
Such devices can produce a lot of electricity on a bright sunny day.
There is a learning curve and there are a lot of videos online that can help you learn it.
To a lot of environmentalists, the priority is to get nuclear power out of those discussions once and for all.
Those of us who haven't taken a decent science course in years, let alone studied genetics, can still get a lot out of your blog.
Both of us talked about how he was intelligent, and a good way of showing a lot of intelligence is when you see someone has a wit.
So even if it has twice that many in distribution, that is a lot of e-book buying by a small number of people.
Not all whales get a lot of herring, but scientists aren't sure why some get more than others.
But his experience is a broad-based one that includes a lot of other areas in his life.
Quite a lot is semi-arid, and only suitable for extensive livestock grazing.
It's open to the notion that a lot of things are kind of interesting.
Your reactor will use a lot more energy than it produces.
It's good for kids to go outside and get exercise and sunlight, but there's a lot going on inside these days.
There are a lot of humanitarian urgent needs that have to be met.
There were a lot of things in the office.
And she wants to make his future secure, so she is trying to make a lot of money.
They probably have a lot of objectives mixed in with the vision.
Implementing these kinds of cuts would generate a lot of pressure.
Everyone laughs a lot, but later no one can say what exactly was so witty.
Alas, history suggests they have been a lot cheaper.
Installing one of those prefab, snap-together wood-flooring kits is a lot easier than shaping and sanding rough planks.
There are a lot of conditions that are really out of your control.
Brains are expensive-it takes a lot of energy to build brains during fetal and childhood development and maintain them in adults.
May is not all that far away, and a lot of us want to get a lot of things done in these next few weeks.
Research finds that where the itch begins says a lot about how bad it is--and how pleasurable the scratch.
Russians, the producers said, put a lot of stickers on their cars.
So a lot rides on what is driving the divergence, and whether it lasts.
Feeding it maltose caused it to make a lot of proteins for digesting maltose.
Lots of other traders were owed a lot of money, too, he noted.
We hear kids aren't cheap, and they stay that way, so she didn't want to spend a lot.
For a lot of family members without access to working projectors, this is a great opportunity to see what's in their collection.
The paint-jobs are also rather sweet, and you'll turn a lot of heads.
With good circulation in the brain, you can eliminate a lot of pain throughout the body.
In the forties and fifties a lot of the impetus behind the organizing on behalf of social equality was catalyzed by unions.
They shoot with cannons at sparrows, a lot of brawn and little brain, and lots of unnecessary cruelty.
There are a lot of good questions here and a lot of good answers.
There are, and will be for the foreseeable future, a lot more bean counters than engineers in this country.
