How to Use as many as in a Sentence

as many as

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  • There are as many as a dozen trucks at the park for special events.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Such camps could hold as many as 3,000 migrants at a time.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • That's one of the reasons SpaceX plans as many as 144 launches next year.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Maybe not as many as we were used to, but certainly enough to keep the shop open.
    — Robert Ito, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • At the height of things in March, the post was feeding as many as 400 people every night.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Perhaps as many as a dozen more states will follow suit in 2024.
    — Michael Toscano, National Review, 24 Mar. 2024
  • These bite marks can take as many as 14 days to appear, according to the CDC.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In total, Bloomin’ plans to open as many as 45 restaurants across all of its brands in the coming year.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
  • By some estimates, as many as 40% of the victims are men.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The women with the Aidar flag said that as many as 100 men from the battalion were now missing.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In the fighting that ensued, Cook, four of his men, and as many as thirty Hawaiians were killed.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The gap grew to as many as 22 points around the seven-minute mark, through Creighton cut it to 10 with two and a half minutes to go and forced UConn to seal the game at the free throw line.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2024
  • There may be as many as half a million feral cats padding around New York City, but no one knows for sure.
    — Richard Schiffman Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • Houston led by as many as 15 points in the first quarter – the sixth time this year the Lakers have been down by at least 10 at a point during the first quarter.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The Celtics took the lead midway through the second quarter and led by as many as 12 in the third, but the Lakers chipped away at the lead before taking it midway through the fourth.
    — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • In Lahaina alone, one official said that as many as 6,000 people may have lost their homes.
    — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Before the end, when the rocket reached a peak altitude just short of 40 km, as many as eight engines appeared to have gone out.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Those events number in the dozens annually, as many as 60 within a year, Rechtin said.
    — The Enquirer, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The next day, as many as 6,000 colonists gathered at the Old South Meeting House to discuss how to handle the unwanted cargo.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The Clippers trailed by as many as 20 points and didn’t lead in the second half until there were less than three minutes remaining.
    — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • He is believed to have abused as many as nine boys while in his position as pastor, according to the BBC.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Her current choice: Pink Lady apples, eating as many as three a day.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 18 Jan. 2024
  • By now, as many as 80% of us have already given up on our New Year’s resolutions.
    — Yaniv Shor, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, as many as 85 to 90 percent of blindness can now be prevented if people get the right assessment and care.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
  • It’s estimated that as many as 300 people may have been killed in this attack.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • In return for Iran’s release of Americans who had been held for as many as eight years, the money was shifted to banks in Qatar to allow Iran to tap the funds.
    — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Chiles is allowed to participate in as many as four games and take a redshirt season.
    — oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • That number is expected to rise, with as many as 1,000 people still missing.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Senna started on pole as the fastest qualifier for the 65th time in F1, almost twice as many as then-second place Jim Clark.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
  • Some of the remaining DVD diehards will get up to 10 discs as a going away present from a service that boasted as many as 16 million subscribers.
    — Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023

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