How To Use A good deal In A Sentence
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There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong.
The Times Literary Supplement
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My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
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However Its normally an extra mit full of cash in the pot from me as I try and turbo speed goffer the place dry This doesn't sound like a good deal.
Army Rumour Service
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Gideon could see the places where the silver was wearing off the cane and he noticed a good deal of clumsy darning on the inside of the cloak, as though the lining had come away from the backing several times.
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Apart from paintings he produced a good deal of graphic work, including numerous book illustrations in lithograph and woodcut.
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Outrages like the Thomas case make it a good deal more difficult for enlightened penal reformers like the Professor to get a fair hearing when they advocate bringing back the lash.
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The white plates are composed of a very tough but light titanium alloy that provides a good deal of extra protection to the body's vitals.
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Between Blackburn Hill and Enderly Road very little social intercourse existed and, as the Road people resented what they called the pride of Blackburn Hill, there was a good deal of bad feeling between the two districts.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
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Something about paper walls, I think, about archery, and a good deal about evergreen laurel, myrtle and wild camellia.
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Now, gentlemen, standing up here before you, I feel a good deal like Pat, and maybe after Ive spieled along for a while, I may feel so darn small that Ill be able to crawl into a Pullman hammock with no trouble at all, at all!
Chapter 14
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Golfers had wagered a good deal of money on Nick Faldo winning the championship.
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There is a good deal of backsliding from time to time even by countries that profess to believe in freer trade.
Government and Private Enterprise
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I'm afraid he is guilty of a good deal of invention.
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She's suffered a good deal of misfortune over the years.
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I am inclined to think, old boy, that there is a good deal of what they call the chump about me.
Old Ebenezer
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Buyers are a good deal more cautious, and sellers have to adopt a less bullish approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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A good deal of role confusion and bewilderment as the growing child encounters the newer ways is to be expected and observed.
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In the course of what I have to say, the distinction between morality as convenience and morality as ideal will virtually collapse, along with a good deal else.
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When an airplane is flying, it has a good deal of forward speed and airflow over all of its surfaces.
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Civilian life affords us the luxury of a good deal of deontology — better to let ten guilty men go free, and so on.
One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic
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There is a good deal of confusion over the use of concepts to analyse the institutions and processes of policy-making.
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Their Scottish backsword is fitted with opposing side rings that offer a good deal of hand protection while keeping the hilt light and easy to wear.
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The watch on deck soon came to the conclusion that "sailoring" was not particularly funny at night, for there was a good deal of gaping, and not a little impatience for the eight bells that would relieve them for
Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway
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a good deal of comfort in the fact as she sold 7-Cs at $22.50 a pair to behemothian damsels who possessed money in proportion to Myra's beauty.
Gigolo
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A good deal of nonsense about the obsolescence of art is written by the less responsible fuglemen of science.
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Having met a good deal of the sea, they knew, like a man who has felt a good deal of the world, that heavy endurance and patient bluffness are safer to get through the waves somehow than sensitive fibre and elegant frame.
Springhaven
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Certainly both the music and these performances have real rhythmic life and a good deal of energy, even if some passages are over-scored and tip over into brassy bombast.
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Tranmere played with a good deal more enthusiasm as the evening wore on, suggesting that Aldridge had expressed - presumably in an indelicate fashion - his sense of displeasure during the recess.
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The operation of budding requires a good deal of nicety: first, to avoid wounding the wood of the stock in slitting the bark; and, secondly, to make the bark of the scion fit quite closely to the wood of the stock, as, if the least vacuity is left between them, the bud will wither instead of beginning to grow.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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The New York and Liverpool firm that your father belongs to sent on board an honest and peaceable cargo, but there was a good deal of room left in the hold, and the captain filled it up with cannon-balls, musket-bullets, and gunpowder from the English agents of no less a man than General Santa
Ahead of the Army
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Football arouses a good deal of passion among its supporters.
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For one thing, we will have to ignore a good deal of commentary presented by nameless characters, by representative characters, and by lay figures who appear for one important speech and are never seen again.
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My friend James got a good deal on a couple of cases of wine but the only room he had for storage was in his loft.
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Moreover, I realized -- experienced, even -- at long last, that "the Body of Christ" is a good deal more than a figure of speech; it is an appalling truth and mystery, uniting us beyond our knowing with one another, and uniting us with an ever greater mystery, the perichoresis ( "circling dance") of the Holy Trinity Who is our One God.
Scott Cairns: Recovering the Body of Christ
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The police have suffered a good deal of criticism in the past few years.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the end of the day, Madison wrote Washington that Henry and Mason “appeared to take different & awkward ground,” and “the federalists are a good deal elated by the existing prospect.”
Ratification
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There was in his composition something of the mediæval "condottiere," and a good deal more of that Dugald Dalgetty whom Scott drew.
Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha
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Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
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Yet he wrote a good deal about empire and coined the term "dual mandate" to describe British policy.
Now That The Sun Has Set
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A good deal of my time is taken up with reading critical essays and reviews.
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There had been a good deal of joking, both Spanish and English, among the passengers; I had found particularly cheering the richness of a certain machinist’s trousers of bright golden corduroy; but as the shades of night began to embrown the scene our spirits fell; and at the cry of a lonesome bird, far off where the sunset had been, they followed the sun in its sudden drop.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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When the baby is not thriving and gaining steadily in weight, or is fretty and cries a good deal, and does not rest and sleep peacefully, something, of course, is wrong.
The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
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Lonnie and Aggie are a good deal younger than Roberta here.
HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
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It did in fact return many idled workers to the work force and created a good deal of useful infrastructure but that was then, this is now.
Matthew Yglesias » Where is the Jobs Strategy?
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This involved crossing a part of the line where there were several sidings and branch lines, on which a good deal of pushing of trucks and carriages to and fro -- that is "shunting" -- was going on.
The Iron Horse
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Edgar Allan Poe, I am fond of believing, earned as a critic a good deal of the excess of praise that he gets as a romancer and a poet, and another over-estimated American dithyrambist, Sidney Lanier, wrote the best textbook of prosody in English; [31] but in general the critical writing done in the United States has been of a low order, and most
A Book of Prefaces
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In what is called our freer modern life, manners have come to count for a good deal less, which makes sheer manner count for a good deal more.
Behavior in Public Places
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We have a good deal of information about the polemical and often bitter arguments Christians, Jews, and pagans had with one another in the early centuries.
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The greatest bar to women's participation was the common-law principle of coverture, although it should be noted that the status and authority of married women in plebeian families likely permitted them a good deal of behind-the-scenes involvement in any legal matters confronting their families.
Gutenber-e Help Page
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I have tried to pack a good deal into a few words.
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The ice is thick and he is a good deal less enthusiastic when the tip breaks through.
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Since the late recoinage of the gold, however, it is believed to have been a good deal under-rated.
I. Book IV. Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System
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Although, as we shall see, Ryle says a good deal more about our mental concepts, it cannot be said that he seriously addresses this question and thereby slays the bogy of mechanism.
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Elizabeth had been a good deal disappointed in not finding a letter from Jane on their first arrival at Lambton; and this disappointment had been renewed on each of the mornings that had now been spent there; but on the third her repining was over, and her sister justified, by the receipt of two letters from her at once, on one of which was marked that it had been missent elsewhere.
Pride and Prejudice
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I know you've been quarrelling a good deal lately.
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Also, zoo and laboratory observations and studies continue to make up a good deal of research in primatology and they are surely a lot less ecologically valid.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Even so it is a very secure bend and can put up with a good deal of strain and movement. It can also be used to tie a bend with thin line.
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Here we find a good deal of open ground, with thickets of shrubby Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries,
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1
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Nisan has seven Nemutan covers in total — he buys them at Internet auctions and at fan conventions whenever he finds a good deal (he paid $70 for the original).
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You lack the information required to know if the insurance is a good deal.
Times, Sunday Times
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People have done hard time in stir for a good deal less, but of course they didn't own e-tail outfits.
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They rallied me with a good deal of gaiety on different subjects, particularly upon the whiteness of my skin and the prominency of my nose.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7
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Seeking out the Iberian meeting places requires a good deal of detailed observation and help from insiders.
Migrants in Modern France: Population Mobility in the Later Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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After a good deal of haggling he bought it and loaded it straight onto a ship sailing south.
THE FROZEN WATER TRADE
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You can either try to get a discount flight or you can view their special offers, either way you will end up with a good deal.
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Up to this point Ishmael has told us a good deal about the great sperm whale.
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The nature of his business enables him to get about the world a good deal.
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What's more, the prospect of one of the most important chunks of Britain's transport infrastructure being sold soon riled a good deal of nationalistic tub-thumping.
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And a very certain opposition as well: some of it sensible, a good deal of it plain hysterical.
Times, Sunday Times
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I thought I might be able to get a good deal on a hotel stay if I booked at the last minute to snatch a bargain on an unbooked room.
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Jimmy Connors is not Howard Hughes, but has spent a good deal longer in seclusion.
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In this case the animals get quite a good deal, but in neither case do they contribute much to wealth.
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A well-known waterman at Selby said that the river was in a fearful condition, and this had a good deal to do with the reported collisions taking place and damage done to boats on their voyages to and from the town.
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I think you have to take into account that he's a good deal younger than the rest of us.
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Even his friends and foster siblings were expecting him to spend a good deal of time in the hoosgow or taking an extended dirt nap due to all this foolishness he was foisting upon the community.
Archive 2006-10-01
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Suffering several weeks of temporary lameness, I have been taking taxis a good deal, and offer a few gleanings from recent experience.
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Well, I hobbled along, and we ploughed all day; and come night, I boohooed and cried a good deal, and the children gits round me, and asks 'What's the matter, Peter?'
Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves.
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In art, the lure of anecdote always presents serious risks, and a good deal of nineteenth century American art succumbed to that drive to explain and amuse.
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With a good deal of difficulty, Anita cut a slot in it, then slung it from the gatepost with baler twine.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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More often than not he lost it and a good deal more besides.
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There is little information in Domesday Book on peasant production but a good deal on demesne inputs and output.
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You lack the information required to know if the insurance is a good deal.
Times, Sunday Times
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I felt very strongly that it was not a good deal for shareholders," said Mr. Sack, adding that he has "agonized" over proceeding with the suit.
Applebee's Director Plans Suit Over Price
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The pores or outlets which open on the skin, however, are a good deal larger than the similar orifices of the perspiratory tubes, but they are not distributed so equally throughout the body.
The Art of Living in Australia
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The literature on rationale effects provided a good deal of support for the general position that undesirable behaviors can often be suppressed without resorting to punishment.
Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
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Gloria's costume caused a good deal of hilarity.
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It occurred to Wyllard that Gregory had, at least, made no great success of farming; but that occupation, as practised on the prairie, demands a good deal more than quickness and what some call brilliancy from the man who undertakes it.
Hawtrey's Deputy
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The police have suffered a good deal of criticism in the past few years.
Times, Sunday Times
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They seed around a good deal, so new plants are always coming on to replace those that fade out.
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He made a good deal of money turning the plants into joints, and selling them to the local teenagers.
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The police have to work a good deal harder to develop closer liaison with the transport providers.
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Whether such properties are a good deal will depend on individual situations.
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Roller blinds offer a good deal of scope through colour and fabric combinations, from floral patterns to bold geometric prints.
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Finally, I think that Wright, who has written a good deal about evolution, is missing a basic evolutionary analogy.
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Council officials say bust-ups are not good for democracy and the behaviour of some councillors has ‘left a good deal to be desired’.
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Nothing that he does or says misbecomes him: but a good deal that he does not do and say might be added with advantage, in order to give us the portrait of a whole as well as a live man.
The English Novel
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Its body has a good deal the shape of the pike; but it is protected by scales of a silvery gray colour and so strong that a dagger could not pierce them.
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A good deal of beer was drunk on the occasion, and the quintain was "dratted" and
Barchester Towers
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Outwardly tough, aloof and cynical, she does a good deal of nail-chewing and fiddling with a cigarette as she decides whether Jack can be trusted.
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Her poetry has a good deal of political content.
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During these months, especially at the beginning, there was a good deal of fraternization between the two sides, complete with competitions, gambling, and dinners.
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Some people, thank goodness, take a good deal of pride and pleasure in achieving and maintaining a perfect filing system.
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Instead, we suffer a good deal more from elective dictatorship, with prime ministers and premiers able to shape the political agenda with a freer hand.
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They contain a good deal of material of a rhetorical, formulaic, or supernatural character designed to bolster the Chosen One's claims to prophethood in the face of sceptical or prejudiced critics.
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Poor Amelia, it was a good deal for her to be called prettier than a very dusty boy in a fight.
The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories
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The lecturer had the feeling that a good deal of what he said had not been taken in by the students.
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There was a good deal of waste in this combing, that is, large clumps of tangled wool called noil were combed out.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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A good deal of work is still outstanding.
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Hencastle (the pencilling has been a good deal admired in my time, though I say it that shouldn't), and the Red-haired Gentleman noticed it in a moment.
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
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Sophomore Gee Gee Greene has been getting a good deal of snaps at starting slotback in training camp and figures to get a lot of work today.
Blue and Gold scrimmage about to start
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The men "kidded" me a good deal, and gave me a cheer at the end (I don't quite know whether it was for my work or my costume) and
The Prairie Child
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Grasses, flax, astelia, griselinia, and coprosma are generally quite hardly and will stand a good deal of rough and tumble before they turn up their toes.
Rotorua Daily Post
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David never saw their tiny spark of a light spring out against the dark of the gathering gloom that he did not make a wish that the "lunger" might be a good deal better the next day.
This Way to Christmas
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Intensely patriotic, that kind of recognition means a good deal to him.
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There is a good deal in this case and other writings about the need for the law to adapt to modern social conditions.
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Though manœuvring went on for four days and a good deal of damage was inflicted, the result was indecisive, no ships being captured or sunk.
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We should be able to trust Silva to negotiate a good deal for us - he's an old hand at the game.
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It covers over 500 products and 175 materials, and includes domestic furniture, lighting, electrical appliances, clothing, textiles, transport, buildings and building materials, and a good deal of miscellanea.
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Logically the frigid temperatures and winds could have accounted for a good deal of this decrease.
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Sometimes, deattributing an artwork does make it look a good deal worse - does entail serious value judgments as an essential critical role - and that can be good, too.
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The patient drank a good deal of water during the whole of the treatment, ate very little and only light food, principally water-soup or panada, and gruel, and kept in bed almost entirely the first ten or twelve days.
Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms
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She knew she would feel a good deal less proud when she told Alice about the penalty clause.
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You weigh a good deal less than a corf full of coal," he said with a smile.
A Place Called Freedom
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The restaurant, with its acre of tables, glassed and naperied; the ranges of telephone booths, all going it together; the cellars, a vast subterrene, with dusky avenues of lockers, each cluttered with beverages of individual predilection -- though I suppose that, after all, they were a good deal alike ....
On the Stairs
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There is a good deal of kunkur-lime in the ground over which we have passed today; but the tillage is good where the land is at all level, and the crops are fine.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II
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And had I made the observation sooner," continued the magistrate, "I might have spared myself a good deal of trouble and a headache which extends from my occiput to my sinciput.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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Gough's songwriting draws influences from Radiohead and Revolver and Rubber Soul-era Beatles, but with a good deal of folk and a bit of hip-hop, soul and dub thrown in for good measure.
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I think there is a good deal of old-fashioned chauvinism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact is," confidentially, "I may not look it but I am a good deal of a tenderfoot.
The Dude Wrangler
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I am in a position to save you a good deal of time.
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When things are going on that have a strong vibration -- what foreign correspondents love to call a "repercussion" -- they cause a good deal of mind-quaking.
Mince Pie
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It's true what they say about the sunny south-east - because Ireland's hills soak up moisture from prevailing south-westerlies, it really is a good deal brighter and drier here.
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If Estelle is in her eighties but looks a good deal younger, then why wouldn’t “Susan” just assume she’s in her sixties or seventies?
CHECKOUT • by Sonia Suedfeld
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The final contractions are less painful and, indeed, pain varies a good deal between women and between births.
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The carnitas had the right flavour, but £12 for a good deal of fat was a bit steep.
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There was a good deal of "enmeshing" there, too, as the majority Black population served as an endless supply of cheap labour for the white elite, and was too populous in any case to be banished holus-bolus to the bantustans.
Archive 2008-05-01
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There is easily enough room for four, and a good deal more left over for their luggage.
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A good deal has been written about the need for accountability and transparency in diocesan transactions, financial and managerial.
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As with many quotes there's a good deal of truth in it and, as with many aphorisms, that truth becomes more and more shallow and two-dimensional as it is examined.
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Instead of the flats women normally wore, the heel of the shoe was extended a good deal so it appeared that they wearer would be walking on their toes.
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Having made a personal visit to the centre, I believe this initiative will further strengthen more trustful relations within the community - and hopefully will provide a good deal of fun along the way.
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He loved his little porringer, which is to say that he ate a good deal; and he loved to read books, which is not to say that he loved study; he hated getting out of bed, and he was constantly gated for morning chapel.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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Our people have inherited a good deal of hatred.
Daniel Deronda
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“He is a good deal embarrassed pecuniarily, I should say,” continued the curate, who was rather a good man than a very well-bred one.
Uncle Silas
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Clearly a good deal more research needs to be done before there are any conclusive answers.
Alternative Health Care for Women
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At first glance, this seems a rather odd sort of charge to make, but it carries a good deal of weight.
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The operation of budding requires a good deal of nicety: first, to avoid wounding the wood of the stock in slitting the bark; and, secondly, to make the bark of the scion fit quite closely to the wood of the stock, as, if the least vacuity is left between them, the bud will wither instead of beginning to grow.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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I read it a good deal later in French, and, being then better qualified, _did_ perceive these merits, though it still did not greatly "arride" me.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
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It does not occur to him that we have had half a century of this, and there is a good deal of disillusion with the whole concept of a ‘public sector’ with a higher, nobler ethos than the common herd.
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The collapse of the command economy has given way to a good deal of racketeering and corruption.
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Notwithstanding, it takes a good deal of thought to achieve such a transformation, and it is an ability purportedly in demand but sadly lacking in supply within the framework of most biennales.
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We expect to see a good deal more of the same as the appeals process commences, and fervently hope the courtroom will be stocked with an adequate supply of tissues.
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A dime taken from any other kid was a good deal.
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She pointed at Maralynne, though she could as easily have indicated herself; her splashy dress exposed her knobby knees and a good deal of aging breast.
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An Australian novelist described him as a ‘tall, striking man still capable of playing a couple of useful chukkas of polo… in some ways more British than the British, but with a good deal more elasticity and charm’.
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This innocent rhetoric, from the realm of religious-ethical balderdash, appears _a good deal less innocent_ when one reflects upon the tendency that it conceals beneath sublime words: the tendency to _destroy life_.
The Antichrist
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Rubbery and viscid, this silk stretches up to about three times its length when pulled on and takes a good deal of abuse before breaking - an important quality in a material responsible for entangling prey.
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Look at the price on previous days to make sure you are getting a good deal.
The Sun
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That implies a good deal of volition, but I would argue that those who lose the most have had their capacity for clarity of decision making impaired.
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The + (What someone who likes this place would say) 2 for 1 martinis is a good deal for midtown
Pazza Notte Is All About The 2 for 1 (Fruity) Martinis | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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In the prosecution of his duties he had met with a good deal of resistance.
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It was necessary for the students to separate former strikers from others (some of them former scabs, some just new employees), as a good deal of turnover appeared to have taken place.
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Would the special offers with porridge oats or muesli be a good deal?
Times, Sunday Times
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Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. Edgar Watson Howe
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It takes a good deal of sensitivity to recognize when the pressure is getting too great.
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A good deal of the marsh was taken in from the sea.
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A good deal of the players returning to the house was bleeped out, so I can only assume that everyone was repeating "succubus" over and over.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus.
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One of the notable features is that executive search consultants are a good deal younger than previously.
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A good deal of work is still outstanding.
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The chief drawback is that it means your being away from home a good deal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Monsieur flattered himself that he might by means of laughter squeeze or express the tears required from the well-known meibomian glands, the caruncula, &c., and might thus piratically provide himself with surreptitious rain; [18] but in that case, he must remind him that he would no more win the day with any such secretions than he could carry to account a course of sneezes or wilfully blowing his nose; a channel into which it was well known that very many tears, far more than were now wanted, flowed out of the eyes through the nasal duct; more indeed by a good deal than were ever known to flow downwards to the bottom of most pews at a funeral sermon.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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We chaffered a good deal, but at last a bargain was struck.
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Trade unions, however, are generally not recognised, and most of them spend a good deal of their time and energy trying to get their meagre wages and overtime paid on time.
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There was a good deal of bribery, corruption, and string-pulling as influential parents strove to ensure that their own children would receive favourable attention from teachers.
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You can do a good deal with two sheets and dozens of safeties without sticking solely to classic draperies.
ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
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He was a poor and often a "fudgy" draughtsman, gifted with extremely little humour, who had nevertheless worked a good deal at a Life Academy in the Tottenham
The History of "Punch"
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From the 1970s onwards he had taken a good deal of interest in documentary film-making and photography.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt
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But all this provides much of the interest of economics as well as a good deal of its employment.
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It's hard to explain why it all works as well as it does, but the continual use of the show's opening number "I Hope I Get It" has a good deal to do with it, not just because of its hummability but also the striving desire it represents.
Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews
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Evelyn was a good deal out of sorts, said Hugh, intimating by a kind of pout or swell of his very well-covered, manly, extremely handsome, perfectly upholstered body
Mrs. Dalloway
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In the prosecution of his duties he had met with a good deal of resistance.
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The condition of his health, though at that time not very obviously failing, a good deal arrested my attention, as I thought I could perceive in the occurrence of the haemoptysis, and in the cardiac hypertrophy, the early beginnings of vascular degeneration.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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And the schoolmaster came out smiling, holding a pipe which was a good deal taller than I, held out his hand, and asked me to come in, gave me coffee at once, and expressed the profoundest contempt for the peasant who had charged two rigsdaler for such a trifle, and then left me in the road.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
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I would have given a good deal to hear his rhapsodical eloquence again, or even his almost noiseless laugh ....
Punin and Baburin
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The Argonne is a long, nearly straight range of hills running from the south northward, a good deal to the west of north.
Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work
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This is one powerful storm, even in downgraded form, and has caused a good deal of damage.
Tropical Storm RICK
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‘Their canoes are made with a good deal of skill, and have an outrigger,’ he wrote.
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They are bandying her name about a good deal.
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Their behaviour and pretensions were overblown but they put out a good deal of material that retains vitality more than 30 years later.
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It takes a good deal of time to explain why a harassed lawyer, his domineering mother-in-law, narcoleptic uncle, his ex-cook and a fellow legal letch should all arrive at a Parisian lovenest on the same night.
Once Bitten – review
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The President usually displays a good deal more sense than the newshawks by whom he is beset.
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Well, there was a good deal of laughing and jeering, especially on the part of the men (these were idlers: the fishermen were all gone away in the boats); but the women, who had to provide for their households, knew when they had a cheap bargain; and the sale of the 'cuddies' proceeded briskly.
The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
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Bow, wow, _wow_!" exclaimed Cuffy in tones which there could be no mistaking, although the broken twigs and herbage which covered the mouth of the pit muffled them a good deal, and accounted for the strangeness of the creature's howls when heard at a distance.
Jarwin and Cuffy
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They are bandying her name about a good deal.
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A good deal more sits in so-called special management zones where nothing can be done easily.
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England had been, and revered him with such enthusiasm for what she called his magnificent manhood and beneficence, as was ready on the least encouragement to have become something a good deal warmer; but whatever she did served to make her distasteful to him.
My Young Alcides
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As the term progressed, Quincy and I saw a good deal of each other.
The Manuscript
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I went to a good deal of trouble to get this ticket.