English
Noun
great deal (uncountable)
-  (idiomatic) A large number or amount.
-  1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, Part II, chapter4:
-  Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
 
 
-  1996, Kevin Hogan, The psychology of persuasion (page 60)
-  Physicians wield a great deal of power.
 
 
-  2008, Andrzej Nowak, History and geopolitics: a contest for Eastern Europe (page 195)
-  The low-keyed vision of Poland as a small and humble supplicant of the European Union still has a great deal of supporters.