beyond number

idiom

formal + literary
: too many to count
a paradise inhabited by animal species beyond number
The stars are beyond number.

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Boys beyond number, nearly all Johnny Hayes devotees, prowled the adjoining Manhattan Field searching for illicit ways in. Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2022

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