that many

idiom

: as many as stated
I wanted a dozen, but they didn't have that many.

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Everything is an experiment with the intention of winning, realizing that many won’t. Shep Hyken, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025 That narrow vote was a rare attempt at congressional oversight, an effort to claw back authority that many now realize has been misused or stretched way too far. Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2025 Reuters reported that many of the protestors were American. John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025 However, my study, which looked at hundreds of articles in the mainstream news media across the 1960s, shows that many of the same newspapers that rigorously covered the civil rights struggle in the South often failed to do so around similar struggles in the North and West. Made By History, Time, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for that many

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“That many.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/that%20many. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.

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