The phrase "abandon a lot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of leaving or giving up on many things or situations.
Example: "After years of trying to make the relationship work, she decided to abandon a lot of her hopes and dreams for the future."
Alternatives: "give up many" or "forsake a great deal".
Camila Batmanghelidjh said that the organisation had to "abandon a lot of children" as a result.
"I would look to them to abandon a lot of routes T.W.A. is currently serving," said Leonard H. Haertter, president of a St . Louistravel agency bearing his name.
She said: "We've had to abandon a lot of children... that's it, it's the end of Kids Company and actually a bunch of rumour-mongering civil servants, ill-spirited ministers and the media, on the back of a range of rumours, put the nail in this organisation and shut it".
Throughout the process you were forced to abandon a lot of ideas.
I abandoned a lot of grad student habits: what sort of research should I do?
That period was about abandoning a lot of things and just starting from scratch and learning how to make art out of pain or clay".
It's like when people say, 'Well, we're not really in love, but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort.
The series has shown them getting more serious with their life, abandoning a lot of the partying and wild antics that defined them on the "Shore".
But, Anderson argued, it wasn't always that way -- before integration, the area was loaded with black-owned banks, department stores, drug stores and other businesses, but "in flexing our economic might, by proving that we can shop wherever we want, in so doing, we abandoned a lot of those businesses," NPR reported.
In fact, if she gets any happier, she is worried that her sense of humour will abandon her: "A lot of my comedy has to do with anger.
