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lots

/lɑts/ noun A1
  1. A lot; a great deal; tons; loads. (colloquial) · Lots of the ways you can help are really easy.· Don't worry, my family has lots of money.
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Tell your client that, although I am the insulted party, in order to carry out my eccentricity, I leave him the choice of arms, and will accept without discussion, without dispute, anything, even combat by drawing lots, which is always stupid, but with me different from other people, as I am sure to gain.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 898 · C1
As for us, we were three days without anything to eat or drink, so that we began to think of drawing lots who should feed the rest, when we saw La Gironde; we made signals of distress, she perceived us, made for us, and took us all on board.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 337 · C1
The general proposed to cast lots for the swords, but the president said it was he who had given the provocation, and when he had given it he had supposed each would use his own arms.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 773 · C1
Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 19 · B2

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