How to Use great/good many in a Sentence
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The fact is, any one of these things (and a great many more) can set off a round of hiccups.
— Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023 -
There's about 1,100 airplanes that went down in the Great Lakes, and a good many of them are still out there.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 June 2024 -
The trust of colleagues in RTE and the trust of a great many people who listen to my show.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 June 2023 -
But now new technologies hold the promise of putting a stop to at least a great many of them.
— Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 29 June 2023 -
And a great many hard-core wrestling fans were actually in on the joke.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023 -
The reports were heard for miles around and a good many people in town, forgetful of the date, were scared out of a year's growth.
— Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2024 -
There are still a great many of us, so this problem hasn’t been recognized yet.
— Manuela Santacatterina, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023 -
The balanced home is an animal grace note—one of a great many across both the human and the non-human world.
— Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024 -
Lately, there have been a great many tweets about people doing this kind of work with AI.
— Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 1 June 2023 -
There aren’t a great many companies that sit in our strata.
— Roy Trakin, Variety, 13 June 2023 -
Clearly, a great many of people watched this 5-year-old movie over the holidays.
— Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024 -
There are, in any event, a great many free-market countries in the world, and very few are marked by overstuffed prisons.
— Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 -
Humans are capable of a great many things due in large part to the physical size of our brains.
— Mike Wehner, BGR, 24 Mar. 2021 -
While some men could be fully out to colleagues and family, a great many could not.
— Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023 -
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 -
The opening night of Sphere in Las Vegas represented a great many things.
— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023 -
Writing has allowed human beings to capture and store a great many more of our words.
— Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2023 -
Whether the tough things in his life are wounds or deep traumas, know that humans are able to withstand a great many challenges and keep going.
— Meghan Leahy - Parenting Q&a, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023 -
A good many brand-name directors made movies this year, fine films that don’t quite reach the first tier of their filmographies.
— Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023 -
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 -
Perhaps the most important thing to know is that there isn't one right way to load a dishwasher, but there are a great many ways to go wrong in between.
— Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Washington has few good options on Taiwan and a great many bad ones that could court calamity.
— Brendan Rittenhouse Green, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2022 -
It is used in a great many inexpensive knives, but still furnishes the blades for some very costly knives, too.
— T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 5 Mar. 2021 -
While a great many are highly qualified, a great many aren’t, yet the powers that be are lowering standards to let them in.
— Stanley Goldfarb, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Lestenkof is a grandmother, related to a good many people in the village and married to the city manager.
— WIRED, 15 July 2023 -
No matter how many studies say otherwise, a great many see the poor as lazy, idle and more willing to depend on handouts than not.
— Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 27 June 2020 -
There's more to 5G than mobile phones; 5G technologies will also serve a great many devices in near real time.
— Klint Finley Joanna Pearlstein simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2022 -
But a great many also recall the contrast between the glittering beauty of the day and the terrible events that occurred.
— Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2021 -
So, although the wording is original, the information comes from a great many other places.
— Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024 -
There are a great many of these kinds of observations, philosophies and other bon mots flung out like streamers; this is a film that has drunk of the cup of loquacity and is now in full flow, demanding close attention to the subtitles.
— Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
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