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The same number of. For example, He changed jobs four times in as many years means he changed jobs four times in four years. [c. 1400]

as many as. A phrase used to qualify the meaning of many as a very large number, depending on what follows it. For example, You can take as many pens as you need. [Late 1300s] Also see as ... as; as much as.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

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Words nearby as many

as long as, aslope, aslosh, as luck would have it, ASM, as many, Asmara, ASME, Asmodeus, as much, as much as

Example sentences from the Web for as many

Like many trans users, Transartist often gets used as a source of information more than anything else.
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But he, like many people using dating apps whatever their sexual identity, remains stoutly positive.
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Like many Americans—but few Republican presidential candidates—the former Florida governor has evolved on the issue.
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In an email exchange a friend said many had repeated this same succinct review but they could never elaborate.
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For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.
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And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
Many of them were delicious in the role; one of them was the embodiment of every womanly grace and charm.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.
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As there are still many varieties of the plant grown in America, so there doubtless was when cultivated by the Indians.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini

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