some vs many
Definitions
adjective
- relatively many but unspecified in number
- (quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
- remarkable
- relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent
adverb
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Examples
Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the
These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.
Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
Definitions
adjective
- a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number
Examples
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We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news.
We laugh a lot and he has many anecdotes, funny, funny stories.
