How to Use how many in a Sentence

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  • That’s how many bikes he’s given away in the past few years.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Because at the end of the day, how many people will go pro, right?
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • This isn’t about which teams or how many deserve to make the playoffs.
    — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Meg Vigil-Fowler: One of the most striking things is just how many there were.
    — Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Some, no one knows how many, were kidnapped and taken back to Gaza.
    — Baz Ratner, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • There’s no easy way to tell how many beds are available in real time.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • There’s no transparency as to how well the show does or how many eyeballs are on it.
    — Time, 20 July 2023
  • Here's a look at how many students enrolled at UW schools this fall.
    — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2024
  • It was not known how many of the injured were guests at the hotel or pedestrians.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • She has been blown away by how many people watch her videos online.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The important question is how many many lives this will cost on both sides.
    — Mathias Hammer, Time, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Police did not clarify how many people have died, and if the deaths were a result of the crash or the leak.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • There’s no official word from Paramount on how many episodes the final half of the show will have.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2024
  • Burkett also would not say how many guns were fired or how many shots were fired.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 21 Apr. 2023
  • San Jose police did not say which bakeries were robbed, or how many were held up.
    — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Best Buy wouldn't say how many employees were laid off last week.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The Meta spokesperson said the company does not know how many of the messages were posted by Hamas.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • High schools were rated by how many of their graduates went on to four-year schools, and many still are.
    — Karin Klein, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Mina began keeping track of how many days in a row Steve would drink.
    — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Details of which or how many homes the children were going to were not included in the post.
    — Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The Ukrainian government doesn’t disclose how many people have signed up to the armed forces in the last two years.
    — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • If Congress decides to do it -- but don't get in that game of them saying 'how many weeks, how many' -- no.
    — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • It has not been confirmed how many episodes season 21 of Grey’s Anatomy will be.
    — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
  • That’s about how many people CVS Health plans to lay off in its latest cost-cutting move.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
  • No matter how many billboards or venues get built in my community, the soul of the city has not changed.
    — De Los Staff, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • What the Lions do at No. 6 will be dependent on how many quarterbacks will go in the top five.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2023
  • There are various numbers about how many blue checks are out there, paid blue checks are out there.
    — WIRED, 2 Nov. 2023
  • So how many state pension funds have exposure to ByteDance?
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 9 May 2024
  • The more challenging question to address, however, is how many USC fans will be there to see that come to fruition?
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
  • From the hospital bed, her father reports how many babies were born that day.
    — Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024

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