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Large quantities or amounts

mass

noun

a large quantity or number

a load of/loads of something

a lot of something, often something unpleasant

quantity

noun

a large amount of something

abundance

noun

a very large quantity of something

pile

noun

a large amount of something

a lot/lots

a large number, amount, or quantity

all manner of something

a great variety of people or things

quite a few

a fairly large number of people or things

a good/great deal of something

a large amount or quantity of something

much

adverb, determiner, pronoun

a large amount of something

cyberloafing

using the Internet where you work, during working hours, for activities which are not work-related

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show a bit of ankle

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