as many
Idioms-
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]
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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 .
Example Sentences
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By comparison, the rest of the top 10% of richest Americans gained $38.2 trillion in wealth over the same period, but it was split among nearly a hundred times as many households.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
She spent the next two decades taking as many as five medications at once and kept getting worse until doctors called her bipolar disorder “treatment-resistant.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
"We're hoping to really unify as many geologic dating methods as we can by using the same mathematics, the same Bayesian approach, and just bringing more data, more raw observations into that mix," he said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
In a brief interview with The Times in 2024, Ted Kim said that he used as many as five devices and relied on unspecified friends to secure tee times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
About twenty spectators and as many journalists and photographers also waited, staring at the empty, lonely board, and at Reshevsky, who never stopped his pacing.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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