great deal

n : (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent:

"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of

money"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal},

{flock}, {good deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess},

{mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot},

{quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack},

{tidy sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]