how many

phrase

—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

The department's announcement did not say what kind of birds were in the flock, how many there were or when the virus was detected. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Park did not specify how many staff members would withdraw or when. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026

The department didn’t state how many individual records were accessed. — Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026

In the early days, London was still a city of smokers, and Daunt would count cigarette butts on the sidewalk to gauge how many passersby had stopped to look. — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for how many

• antennae
• halfpenny
• propene
• sixpenny
• threepenny
• twopenny
• any
• bennie
• benny
• henny
• jenny
• penny