Sometimes we use a quantifier in the place of a determiner:

Most children start school at the age of five.
We ate some bread and butter.
We saw lots of birds.

We use these quantifiers with both count and uncount nouns:

 

all	any	enough	less	a lot of	lots of
more	most	no	none of	some

 

and some more colloquial forms:

 

plenty of

heaps of

a load of

loads of

tons of

etc.

 

Some quantifiers can be used only with count nouns:

 

both

each

either

(a) few

fewer

neither

several

 

and some more colloquial forms:

 

a couple of

hundreds of

thousands of

etc.

 

 

Some quantifiers can be used only with uncount nouns:

 

a little

(not) much

a bit of

 

And, particularly with abstract nouns such as time, money, trouble, etc:, we often use:

 

a great deal of

a good deal of