a good many

Determiner

Meaning

a good many

A substantial number of
The government has enacted a good many reforms.

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Related terms

many a a great many a good few

Examples

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. Herbert Hoover

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. Ring Lardner

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. Joseph Conrad

I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to set the other side. George Mallory

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. Kenneth Tynan

It takes a good many mice to kill a cat. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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