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Your words of encouragement meant a lot to me.
He eats a lot.
The author illustrated his book with a lot of pictures.
You must remember the fact that you owe her a lot.
Did you have a lot of happy experiences in your childhood?
We had a bad rice crop last year because it rained a lot.
A lot of people are going to tell you that you shouldn't have done that.
Tom and Mary argue a lot, but they still get along quite well together.
CO₂ has a lot to do with the so-called greenhouse effect.
It sometimes is the case that there is a lot of disagreement.
He has bought a lot in the suburbs with a view to building a house.
It's a lot less likely for a Macintosh computer to have a virus than a computer running Windows.
A lot of reports came to the policeman that a wild monkey was found.
I like you a whole lot.
A lot of buildings collapsed in Japan due to the earthquake yesterday.