How to Use how many in a Sentence

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  • Yet how many times have the Dodgers clinched on their home field?
    — Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • That’s how many bikes he’s given away in the past few years.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Click a precinct to see how many people of each group live there.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Because at the end of the day, how many people will go pro, right?
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • This isn’t about which teams or how many deserve to make the playoffs.
    — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Even the lawyers can’t seem to believe how many lawyers are involved.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Meg Vigil-Fowler: One of the most striking things is just how many there were.
    — Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • That is how many messages are compiled in a black binder.
    — Leyla Shokoohe, The Enquirer, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Some, no one knows how many, were kidnapped and taken back to Gaza.
    — Baz Ratner, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The amazing thing was how many of us are carrying some form of grief.
    — Melissa Ragain, Artforum, 1 Mar. 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
  • But the ring can inform him how many of those were quality hours.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no transparency as to how well the show does or how many eyeballs are on it.
    — Time, 20 July 2023
  • Here's a look at how many students enrolled at UW schools this fall.
    — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2024
  • It was not known how many of the injured were guests at the hotel or pedestrians.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That’s how many brain cells die each minute a stroke goes untreated.
    — Sean C. Domnick, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
  • Officials do not yet know how many people were in the tractor at the time.
    — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025
  • But how many of them, and for how much money, will be critical.
    — Tony East, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • She has been blown away by how many people watch her videos online.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The important question is how many many lives this will cost on both sides.
    — Mathias Hammer, Time, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Police did not clarify how many people have died, and if the deaths were a result of the crash or the leak.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • There’s no official word from Paramount on how many episodes the final half of the show will have.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2024
  • Gardner described how many of Kelce’s friends and family came to see the show.
    — Matt Minton, Variety, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Burkett also would not say how many guns were fired or how many shots were fired.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 21 Apr. 2023
  • San Jose police did not say which bakeries were robbed, or how many were held up.
    — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Best Buy wouldn't say how many employees were laid off last week.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
  • So, how many people watched the alternate performance?
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Plenty of good things going on, for sure, but worth asking how many have been priced in and how long the market can keep avoiding unlucky breaks.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Flora did not respond to questions about how many meetings were held or how many people attended.
    — Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 8 Feb. 2026
  • So how many glasses of wine are in a bottle?
    — Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2026

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