great/good many

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: 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 But a great many of them viewed socialism as a system that could actually work. John C. Goodman, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025 This is noteworthy in that a great many people are prepared to accept many things for peace. Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 June 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 20 Aug. 2025.

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