how many

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—used to ask or talk about an amount

How many people were there?

I was surprised by how many people were there.

How many times do I have to tell you to lock the door?

Examples of how many in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As part of that sliding scale, categories could potentially expand to as many as eight nominees — or as few as two, depending on how many contenders were submitted in each race. —Michael Schneider, Variety, 24 June 2024

Police did not say how many shots may have been fired. —David Matthews, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024

In other words: how many times can Netflix re-encode its entire catalog with yet another novel encoding strategy, or new codec, before those efforts are poised to hit a wall and won’t make much of a difference anymore? —Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 22 June 2024

The company is still determining how many personnel will be working the convention. —Tristan Hernandez, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024