It is melancholy to think how many epic poets have been lost in the tea-trade, how many dramatists (though the age of the drama has passed) have wasted their genius in great mercantile and mechanical enterprises.
How many hours, how many minutes, does one get of that pure content which is happiness?
Then, turning to Maslova again, she asked: "How many years?
One fly deposits hundreds of eggs, and another, like the hippobosca, a single one; but this difference does not determine how many individuals of the two species can be supported in a district.
Nothing can be plainer than that wings are formed for flight, yet in how many insects do we see wings so reduced in size as to be utterly incapable of flight, and not rarely lying under wing-cases, firmly soldered together!
You can also guess closely at how many of each agency the government is going to kill each year for the next five years.
The Thug said: "How many of you English are passionately devoted to sporting!
After that, that holiest of all sacred rivers will cease to be holy, and will be abandoned by the pilgrim for many centuries; how many, the wise men have not stated.
How many families, in your town, would take a negro man and woman, teach them, bear with them, and seek to make them Christians?
Tom received this agreeable intelligence quite meekly; simply wondering, in his own heart, how many of these doomed men had wives and children, and whether they would feel as he did about leaving them.
In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who is not.
Of men, of how many we hear, that sold Their patrons and their friends for sordid gold?
LII "You see the best of the nobility Of all fair France extinguished on the field; How many swords, how many lances, see The Spaniards round the valiant monarch wield.
O Jesu, mercy, said Sir Launcelot; if this be sooth, how many there be that know of my woodness!
And see, said they all, how many knights he smiteth down with his sword, and of how many knights he rashed off their helms and their shields; and so he beat them all of Orkney afore him.
First, tell me how many of your fellows will stick by you?
How many thousands, think you, were in the Mahdi's army who never heard of the Prophet till they saw the black flags of the Emirs going into battle?
Others were with me: how many I could not tell, for when I tried to see their faces they dissolved in mist.
How many a hand in prayer been lifted high When the black fate came onward with the rush Of whirlwind, avalanche, or fiery spume!
When also the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets of fragments took you up?
To my final question: "How many of you have met me in other prisons?
How many of them are "submerged" I cannot say, but I know that some have been perilously near it.
How many times a sarcasm or a single speech has decided the whole course of a man's life.
How many a time a woman has been heard to say in her own salon after close and intimate conversations:-- "Such a one is my ideal as to soul, and I love the other who is only a dream of the senses.
How many parts would you give to Evie, how many to Charles, how many to Paul?
How many of these vacillating shoppers and tired shop-assistants realized that it was a divine event that drew them together?
We gave several thousand pounds for it--how many thousand?
By the way, mon bon monsieur, how many authors of your present time will last till the next century?
How many hundred or thousand of years had that toad lived who was in the coal at the defunct Exhibition?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "how many" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
