as many

Idioms  

1. 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]

2. 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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Example Sentences

United have taken twice as many points from their past two games - against the teams first and second in the table - as they collected from the three before that, against Leeds, Wolves and Burnley, three of the current bottom five.

From BBC

With as many Netflix original movies as I’ve seen and as cognizant as I am about them being constructed to appeal to the growing attention-deficient demographic, these futile additional aspects always take me by surprise.

From Salon

Instead of taking a break in January, as many young women her age do before entering college, Gisele was at training camp with the U.S. senior team and played in a 6-0 win over Paraguay on Saturday in a friendly at Dignity Health Sports Park.

From Los Angeles Times

That earned him a scholarship to Cal, where he played 22 games in two seasons, throwing nearly twice as many interceptions as touchdown passes.

From Los Angeles Times

"It's important that we develop as many methodologies for tracking and characterizing space debris as possible."

From Science Daily