great/good many

idiom

: very many
A great/good many people did not survive.

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A good many competitors cost the same for a one-device license, though the price for many is less. PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2025 In Slow Tech, Ginn, one of the co-hosts, walks readers through dozens of projects featured on the shows, and a good many new ones: weaving baskets, making candles, roasting meat, extracting salt from seawater. Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025 Only there was a problem: While Medicare covered the device, that left out a great many people who could benefit from using it but couldn’t afford the price. Anne Field, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025 More importantly, the planet shut down in March 2020 because of the novel coronavirus, shoving a great many in-the-works projects back into a drawer. Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 24 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for great/good many

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“Great/good many.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/great%2Fgood%20many. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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