A great deal of work was done before operations started on the dam.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Many people think search was a done deal. It's boring.

很多人认为搜索没有开发空间，很无聊。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

I've done a great deal of work on love and sex, and now have written at least eight books.

我大量研究爱情与性爱，到现在写了至少八本书了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Over the last few days, they have done a great deal of work on the orbiting outpost during three spacewalks.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

There's no formula here, a great deal depends on the overall pattern, what your TA tells me about how you've done over the course of the semester.

没什么公式，主要是看整体模式，助教告诉我关于这门课你这学期做得怎样。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"It may not be until maybe a year, or two years from now before we fully understand the impact of the deal-making that was done, in order to secure these voting blocs in places like Qandahar,Helmand, where the insurgency has really taken control, and where the government is the weakest and it has the weakest bargaining position."

VOA: standard.2009.08.03