Many

Definition

many /'meni/ indef det, indef pron (used with plural ns and vs ) ၁။ မ်ားျပားေသာအေရအတြက္။ အမ်ား။ (က) ( det ): Many people agree with pri-vatization. ❍ Were there many pictures by wo-men artists? ❍ How many children have you got? ❍ There are too many mistakes in this essay. ❍ He made ten mistakes in as many (ie ten) lines. (ခ) ( pron ) အမ်ား။ မ်ားမ်ား။ Many of the plants had died. ❍ Did you know many of the people at the conference? ❍ How many do you want? (ဂ) (used in compound adjs ) အမ်ား။ a many-sided/many-faceted problem ❍ a many - headed monster. ❍ MUCH indef det, indef pron ၂။ many a ( fml ) (used with a singular n and a singular v ) အမ်ားအျပား။ အေျမာက္အျမား။ Many a young person has experimented with drugs. ❍ I've been there many a time. ❏ as many as… [ IDM ] (အေရအတြက္ မ်ားလြန္းသျဖင့္ အံ့ဩသည့္အခါမ်ဳိး၌ သံုးသည္။ ) ေလာက္ေတာင္။ There were as many as 200 people at the lecture. ❏ a good/great many [ IDM ] ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား။ I've known him for a good many years. ❏ have had one too many [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေရခ်ိန္လြန္ သြားသည္။ ❏ the many n [pl v ] လူမ်ားစု။ အမ်ားစု။ a government which improves conditions for the many. Compare THE FEW ❏ many's the sb/sth who/that… [ IDM ] အမ်ား။ အမ်ားအျပား။ Many's the promise that has been broken. (Compare: Many a promise has been broken. ) ❍ Many's the time (that) I heard him use those words.

Examples

1. Did you get many responses to your advertisement?
2. I haven’t told many people that I am pregnant.
3. I’ve been to their house many times.
4. In many cases workers were being employed without a written contract.
5. Dervla Murphy’s latest book describes her many adventures in Nepal.
6. The news will bring joy to many.
7. [many of] : Many of the world’s leading doctors have been trained here in Edinburgh.
8. [too many] : There are too many rules and regulations.
9. [a good many] : We’ve lived here for a good many years.
10. [many many] : It all happened many many years ago.
11. [a great many] : He was asked a great many questions and answered them all.
12. [not very many] : Not very many companies can afford the high cost of introducing new technology.
13. [many a] : No doubt she had many a tale to tell of the old days.
14. [many hundreds/thousands/millions] : Many thousands of animals died in the floods.
15. [so many] : The scientists have been proved wrong so many times that people no longer believe them.
16. I don’t see why the many should suffer because of the few idiots who cause trouble.