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

This isn’t about which teams or how many deserve to make the playoffs. —Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2024

Inside the fall of the popular chain April 10, 2024 The city did not specify how many workers would be eligible to receive support. —Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024

The real number of how many soldiers the country needs is classified, Orysia Lutsevych, head of the Ukraine Forum at U.K. think tank Chatham House, tells TIME. —Mallory Moench, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024

The touchscreen control panel displays the garden’s vitals, such as how many days planted and the water level. —Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2024

The officials declined to say how many agencies received the warning, noting that the company was still determining what had happened and could find more government targets. —Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024

Best Buy wouldn't say how many employees were laid off last week. —Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024

The inspector general also said the Postal Service does not have a national inventory of keys, does not know how many exist or how many are missing, stolen or broken. —Nick Devlin, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2024

There are no precise estimates of how many people engage in data annotation work. —Will Henshall, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024