all of

No less than, at least, as in Although she looked much younger, she was all of seventy . [First half of 1800s]
The entire amount of something, as in The baby ate all of his cereal . This usage is relatively new, the word of being included only from about 1800 on.

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All of them are saying, "This can be made simple. I have a simple solution to this. I am going to bring things back" — you know, in the U.K. we had Brexit, which literally had the slogan "Take back control."

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All of these populist authoritarian figures are all trying to say that the world can be made simple and comprehensible again.

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The company has things to do, and the only reason it cares about profits is that it has to give its investors a reasonable return on their investments, not to divert all of its efforts towards maximizing it.

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James Bruton, who builds all of his inventions in a secret location in Hampshire, used to work in IT and was a toy maker before switching to being a "full-time internet creator".

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Some sources even warn in private they could lose all of the town halls they control.

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allodium all of a sudden

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