great/good many

idiom

: very many
A great/good many people did not survive.

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Sources attributed it to a combination of factors including scheduling that are constantly in flux for a great many indie film packages. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 July 2025 Toward the end of the last century, a great many hacienda hotels were constructed in southern Spain in a style that was meant to look old. Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025 A good many of them can feel like Hail Mary passes by a brand desperate for growth, or a way to take out a rival, or simply the result of one company overestimating its ability to turn around another. Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 July 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 See All Example Sentences for great/good many

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“Great/good many.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/great%2Fgood%20many. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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