How to Use how many in a Sentence

how many

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  • That’s how many things have gone wrong for me.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But — but this guy — how many hours are there in the day?
    Alex Crippen, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
  • No word yet on how many of them will give the slide a try.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But the agency doesn't know how many.
    Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2026
  • That’s not how many people viewed it.
    Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Look at Van Gogh — how many years…?
    Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
  • It is not yet known how many people chose to do so.
    Julie Appleby, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Yet how many times have the Dodgers clinched on their home field?
    Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • That's how many pairs of skis each biathlete has at a race.
    ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Click a precinct to see how many people of each group live there.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Apr. 2025
  • It was not known how many agents were at each tri-state airport.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
  • In our lives how many things are like the snail, never thought of?
    Victoria Chang, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There's no word yet on how many sites have opted in to the idea.
    John Ramos, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • So how many glasses of wine are in a bottle?
    Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2026
  • But how many people have seen a cloud of cicadas?
    Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Ask me how many people are reading it?
    Nicole Carpenter, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But how many of them are thinking about the future?
    Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This was how many employees learned about the plan.
    Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • There’s no limit to how many visas can be issued.
    ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The question now is how many new players will end up in the room.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • She has been blown away by how many people watch her videos online.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2023
  • By how many less people are homeless.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Neighbors were left counting how many were hit.
    Allen Devlin, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • That’s how many brain cells die each minute a stroke goes untreated.
    Sean C. Domnick, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
  • App users can see in real time how many people watch their projects.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Even the lawyers can’t seem to believe how many lawyers are involved.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • There’s no easy way to tell how many beds are available in real time.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • This isn’t about which teams or how many deserve to make the playoffs.
    Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Because at the end of the day, how many people will go pro, right?
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • By how many people have jobs, and jobs that they are taken good care of at.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026

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