not many

idiom

: only a few
Not many people showed up.

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But there are not many signs so far that Republican senators are willing to buck Trump to block Kennedy. Niall Stanage, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2024 Another hypothesis is that manatees were in abundance, but there are not many bones at excavation sites because they were not hunted like other animals. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024 Missing allure Comparable thinking tells you not many Americans are moving to California. Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024 Despite his voluminous track record – Imdb logs him with 74 film credits and 15 TV shows – Kurosawa says that not many investors were interested in funding his action genre experiment. Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for not many 

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“Not many.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20many. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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