not many

idiom

: only a few
Not many people showed up.

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Missing allure Comparable thinking tells you not many Americans are moving to California. Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024 Despite his voluminous track record – Imdb logs him with 74 film credits and 15 TV shows – Kurosawa says that not many investors were interested in funding his action genre experiment. Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024 Although not many details have been made available about the currently untitled biopic, Deadline reports that Virgil Williams is writing a script for the film, based on an original draft by Max Werner. Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024 The singer earns another champion this frame, with a tune that not many people—even fans—would guess now stands as her inaugural leader. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for not many 

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“Not many.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20many. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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