great number

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“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

In the 1980s a great number of unauthorized immigrants from Caribbean and Central American countries began arriving in the United States.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 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

“I’ve already heard a great number of people saying, ... ‘It’s not even, say, half of Denmark’s annual emissions.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 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