that many

idiom

: as many as stated
I wanted a dozen, but they didn't have that many.

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Rashmi Adaval, a marketing professor at the Lindner College of Business at UC, wrote in an update that many local items initially seemed to resist the pull of inflation at the start of the index, but most have finally risen in cost. Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025 Snow shared that many of her go-to books — primarily nonfiction titles, autobiographies and self-help books — have propelled her through hard moments in her life, including her divorce and her father's Alzheimer's diagnosis. Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025 The death came after more than a decade of warnings by staff that conditions at the prison were so unsafe that many correctional officers feared for their lives. Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025 Mining companies have so exacerbated water scarcity that many Indigenous Chileans have had to give up herding. Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for that many

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“That many.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/that%20many. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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