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
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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
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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
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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
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And a great many hard-core wrestling fans were actually in on the joke.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
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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
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There are still a great many of us, so this problem hasn’t been recognized yet.
—Manuela Santacatterina, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
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And a good many are predicting stocks will be higher still at year-end.
—Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
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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
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Lately, there have been a great many tweets about people doing this kind of work with AI.
—Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 1 June 2023
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There aren’t a great many companies that sit in our strata.
—Roy Trakin, Variety, 13 June 2023
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With great box office draw comes a great many sequels, requels, and spinoffs.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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Clearly, a great many of people watched this 5-year-old movie over the holidays.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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While some men could be fully out to colleagues and family, a great many could not.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
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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
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There are a great many security issues to deal with as well.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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The opening night of Sphere in Las Vegas represented a great many things.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
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Writing has allowed human beings to capture and store a great many more of our words.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lestenkof is a grandmother, related to a good many people in the village and married to the city manager.
—WIRED, 15 July 2023
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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
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But quantity doesn’t mean quality — and a great many of these apps are bewilderingly bad.
—Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2024
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