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Meanings of many grains in English

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Usage of many grains in English
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So how many grains of sand are there in a metre cube box?
The Guardian
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They also suck the sap of the rose, the grape-vine, and of many grains.
Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, an...
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How many grains of sand are there on a beach?
The Irish Times
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How many grains of sense are there in their thousand folio or quarto volumes?
Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
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And do you know how many grains one ear bears?
The Mysterious Island
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Zea mays (Gramineae).- Asingleplant in the greenhouse produced a good many grains.
The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingd...
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How many grains of sand are on the beach?
The Irish Times
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At the beginning, they were individuals, no more cohesive than so many grains of wet sand.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
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M. Chabert asked Mr. Smith, how many grains he wished to commence his first draught with.
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods / A Complete Exposé of the Mod...
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Look at your eyes and your skin, how many grains do you take a day, anyway?
The Perils of Pauline
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And wonder how many grains of sand
I’m With the Band
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I don't know how many grains of calomel he has taken; and it has salivated him dreadfully.
Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper
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In the pollen of both sets of anthers, nearly as many grains were small and shrivelled as sound.
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
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We may do this if we know how many grains of wheat there are in the ten bushels.
Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
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I asked one day how many grains I should prepare, and was told to give half a teaspoonful.
Domestic Manners of the Americans
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So I do not think this statement of Davis's is to be taken without many grains of salt.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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