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great many
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see under good many .Example Sentences
A great many investors backed the wrong horseless carriages around a century ago and lost their money.
Some on the right were goaded by media outlets that used wild exaggerations and downright lies to portray people on the left as cartoon effigies of evil secular impulses, but setting aside the lies and distortions, a great many people felt a genuine abhorrence for pluralistic, secular society and a government that based policy on cold scientific studies and New Agey concepts of radical equality rather than on biblical or other traditional precepts.
Risen takes pains to point out that yes, a great many Americans did join the Communist Party, especially in the 1930s, when American capitalism teetered on the verge of collapse.
But there’s a broader issue, which is that a great many FAA employees—not just air traffic controllers—positively affect aviation safety.
A former cast member of the musical Cats recorded the pronunciations of a great many words for the website Vocabulary.com.
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