great number
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Say adios to Argentina: For a great number of soccer fans, Argentina evoked the feeling of getting away with something.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Opera Wars” explores a great number of questions, some of which are impossible to address fully, as Ms. Vincent admits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
But the 2026 election only matters if people vote, which historically is not something a great number of people do in midterms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
True, a great number of musicians have achieved success with limited or no vision, and a preternatural pianist like John would be no different should he continue to compose.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2024
At perhaps ten, we heard a great number of militiamen approaching, speaking in accents boisterous and jocular—and so we quit our position and crouched some several rods away, in the grasses by the shore.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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