"he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"

"a batch of letters"
"a deal of trouble"
"a lot of money"
"he made a mint on the stock market"
"see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"
"it must have cost plenty"
"a slew of journalists"
"a wad of money"

"wad paper into the box"

"the theater was jampacked"