great/good many

idiom

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

Examples of great/good many in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The ACDSee Interface ACDSee has a good many buttons, menus, modes, panels, and toolbars, all of which can be overwhelming. PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024 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 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 Incidentally, the Apple television also never saw the light of day, at least as an actual TV, despite creating a great many headlines. Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 He’s been really rich for a long time and has succeeded in living like a really rich person even through the bankruptcy of six of his enterprises, lawsuits nearly too numerous to count, and a great many unpaid bills to people who made the mistake of working for him. Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 27 Feb. 2024 There might be a great many creative epithets used to denigrate Asian people, as I was reminded about recently when watching the 2008 film Gran Torino, in which Clint Eastwood plays a cantankerous old man who owns a thesaurus full of them—but the directness of chink feels among the worst. Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2024 That’s led to a great many physical transformations, as with Adrian Nathan West; it’s also led more than a few people to the door marked illicit gains. Peter Rubin, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024 Morricone wrote over 400 soundtracks (more than any other movie composer), and a great many of them were for Italian films that never made it to the States. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024

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“Great/good many.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/great%2Fgood%20many. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.

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