A lot coming to us? Eight are anyway (8)
I believe the answer is:
heritage
'a lot' is the definition.
(someone's lot in life is their inherited situation)
'eight are anyway' is the wordplay.
'anyway' indicates anagramming the letters.
'eight'+'are'='eightare'
'eightare' anagrammed gives 'HERITAGE'.
'coming to us?' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for heritage that I've seen before include "Ancestry" , "Our historic legacy" , "Stuff handed down from the past" , "Received culture and background" , "Patrimony" .)