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He hurled (a stream/torrent of) abuse at her (= he said a lot of rude and offensive things to her).

As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes.

During a successful business career, she accumulated a great amount of wealth.

We’ve accumulated so much rubbish over the years.

During our six years in this house, we seem to have accumulated an awful lot of junk.

They received a lot of adverse publicity/criticism about the changes.

I’d love to upgrade our car. Then again, there are lots of other things around the house that we need to replace more urgently.

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a kilo of apples
loads of food
hundreds of people
most of them
none of them
both of us
a third of all people
a speck of dust
a drop of rain

Do all of us agree on the matter?
He broke the world record by a tenth of a second.
Some of the players are not performing as well as they could.
I bought her a bunch of flowers for her birthday.
She failed the exam because she got two of the questions wrong.