How to Use great/good many in a Sentence

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• The fact is, any one of these things (and a great many more) can set off a round of hiccups.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
• There's about 1,100 airplanes that went down in the Great Lakes, and a good many of them are still out there.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 June 2024
• The trust of colleagues in RTE and the trust of a great many people who listen to my show.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 June 2023
• But now new technologies hold the promise of putting a stop to at least a great many of them.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 29 June 2023
• And a great many hard-core wrestling fans were actually in on the joke.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
• The reports were heard for miles around and a good many people in town, forgetful of the date, were scared out of a year's growth.
  — Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2024
• There are still a great many of us, so this problem hasn’t been recognized yet.
  — Manuela Santacatterina, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
• The balanced home is an animal grace note—one of a great many across both the human and the non-human world.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
• Lately, there have been a great many tweets about people doing this kind of work with AI.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 1 June 2023
• There aren’t a great many companies that sit in our strata.
  — Roy Trakin, Variety, 13 June 2023
• Clearly, a great many of people watched this 5-year-old movie over the holidays.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• There are, in any event, a great many free-market countries in the world, and very few are marked by overstuffed prisons.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• Humans are capable of a great many things due in large part to the physical size of our brains.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 24 Mar. 2021
• While some men could be fully out to colleagues and family, a great many could not.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• During the winter there’s a good many soups and stews eaten, and a warm yeast roll alongside makes that meal special.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
• The opening night of Sphere in Las Vegas represented a great many things.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
• Writing has allowed human beings to capture and store a great many more of our words.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2023
• Whether the tough things in his life are wounds or deep traumas, know that humans are able to withstand a great many challenges and keep going.
  — Meghan Leahy - Parenting Q&a, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
• A good many brand-name directors made movies this year, fine films that don’t quite reach the first tier of their filmographies.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• His father, Kurt Wolff, was a famed publisher who worked with Kafka, Jung and a great many others.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• Perhaps the most important thing to know is that there isn't one right way to load a dishwasher, but there are a great many ways to go wrong in between.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2023
• Washington has few good options on Taiwan and a great many bad ones that could court calamity.
  — Brendan Rittenhouse Green, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2022
• It is used in a great many inexpensive knives, but still furnishes the blades for some very costly knives, too.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 5 Mar. 2021
• While a great many are highly qualified, a great many aren’t, yet the powers that be are lowering standards to let them in.
  — Stanley Goldfarb, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• Lestenkof is a grandmother, related to a good many people in the village and married to the city manager.
  — WIRED, 15 July 2023
• No matter how many studies say otherwise, a great many see the poor as lazy, idle and more willing to depend on handouts than not.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 27 June 2020
• There's more to 5G than mobile phones; 5G technologies will also serve a great many devices in near real time.
  — Klint Finley Joanna Pearlstein simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2022
• But a great many also recall the contrast between the glittering beauty of the day and the terrible events that occurred.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2021
• There are a great many students and families and colleges out there who deserve answers.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2024
• But, in the meantime, a great many people are trying—jealously, ferociously, with claw curled and fang bared—to be his Friend.
  — Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024