How to Use great/good many in a Sentence

great/good many

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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
  • With three more days to go, there’s a great many runs of popular games coming up.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 8 Jan. 2025
  • There are still a great many of us, so this problem hasn’t been recognized yet.
    — Manuela Santacatterina, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
  • Just the good many who seem to delight in complaining and grousing.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
  • And a good many are predicting stocks will be higher still at year-end.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • With great box office draw comes a great many sequels, requels, and spinoffs.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • But what is clear is that a great many people share that secret, which makes the secret less secret.
    — Lisa Brown, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • There are a great many things about LaMelo Ball that are fun to watch and make for terrific highlights.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • There are a great many security issues to deal with as well.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But not all Gullwings will get nine-figure prices; a great many, in fact, live in the seven-figure world, or even less for the roadsters.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Yet a great many hands and wallets were needed to make this gritty little movie happen.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025
  • Research showed that a great many hail from the minors or independent baseball.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Frobisher is a good-hearted boy, and Hanaud, the detective cautioning him, is Mason’s franchised gumshoe, used in a good many of the author’s books.
    — Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 30 June 2025

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