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Idioms  

1. Also, a great many. A large number of, as in A good many checks have come in already, or We saw only a few hikers on the trail, when we had thought there would be a great many. The first term dates from the early 1800s, the variant from the late 1600s. Also see a lot; quite a bit (few).

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Example Sentences

Reason: the bond market is "not particularly good"; many a bond is low in price, high in interest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although Christian churches are officially committed to belief in Heaven as an ultimate reward for good, many a Christian considers it bad taste to speculate in detail upon life after death.

From Time Magazine Archive

I know it has influenced me for good many a time in the past, and would continue to do so still if I were not past redemption.”

From Charlie to the Rescue by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

She thought Bel Bree had got a notion of one way, that was open, or might be, to a good many, a way that it remained, perhaps, for themselves to open rightly.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

Related Words

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