Translation for 'a great many' from English to French

a great many

de très nombreux {adj}

a great many [+people etc.]

beaucoup de {adj} {prep} [+gens, etc.]

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to have a great many problems

avoir bien des problèmes

avoir un grand nombre de problèmes

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many a

moult {adj} {adv} [régional ou vieilli ou plaisant]

many (a) [+ sg]

maint

many a year

de longues années {adv}

Many a true word spoken in jest. [idiom]

Plus d'une vérité est dite en plaisantant. [loc.]

to a great extent

en grande partie {adv}

en (grande) majorité {adv}

pour la plupart {adv}

a great pleasure

un vif plaisir

to make a great discovery

faire une grande découverte

to have a great time

s'en payer une tranche [fam.]

s'amuser comme des fous [fam.]

bien s'amuser

s'éclater

at a great age

au grand âge {adv}

to get a great deal

faire une bonne affairecomm.

in a great hurry

en toute hâte {adv}

to attain a great age

atteindre un âge avancé

to make a great impression

faire beaucoup d'impression

to be a great success

connaître un grand succès

He's a great guy.

C'est un chic type. [fam.]

• It is the "Jacquard head" that adapts to a great many dobby looms that allow the weaving machine to then create the intricate patterns often seen in Jacquard weaving.
• Some glory therefore accrued to the volunteers (a great many of the survivors also fought during World War II), but this soon faded in the fear that it would promote communism by association.
• Harpsichords have been decorated in a great many different ways: with plain buff paint (e.g. ...
• Consequently, there are a great many designs, but they can be generally categorized as "end-window", windowless "thin-walled", "thick-walled", and sometimes hybrids of these types.
• When you've written at least three songs that can be considered classic that is a very high batting average and if one of those songs happens to be something that a great many people think is one of the greatest songs ever written you've not only hit the top of the mountain but you've stayed high on the mountain for a long time."

• However, a great many celebrities are clearly not "intellectual" achievers nor notable for any cognitive or analytic powers, e.g.
• As such, a great many of Merced's Hmong collected social services and Hmong gangs arose, prompting other residents to perceive them as being the cause of economic troubles.
• He threw himself into philanthropy by donating a great many works to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• It can be programmed to play up to five voices with a range of six octaves stereophonically. A great many Orch-90 (as it was often called) music files were available for download from CompuServe.
• After continued persecution more of the Oral Law was committed to writing. A great many more lessons, lectures and traditions only alluded to in the few hundred pages of Mishnah, became the thousands of pages now called the "Gemara".

• A great many more instruments were constructed at Tycho Brahe's new manor on Hven called Uraniborg.
• Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center responded that Wilcox "had an ax to grind for a great many years" and engaged in name calling against others doing anti-racist work.
• There are a great many formulas connecting arithmetical functions with each other and with the functions of analysis, especially powers, roots, and the exponential and log functions.
• Due to this, they customarily officiate at a great many of its traditional and religious ceremonies.
• Since a great many solicitors also perform the function of commissioners for oaths and can witness routine declarations etc.

• At the same time, there appeared to be little significant internal opposition to the regime. A great many of the North Koreans fleeing to China because of famine still showed significant support for the government as well as pride in their homeland.
• It was not until after the elucidation of the laws of physics, and more particularly in the latter half of the 20th century the development of the computer (allowing for the automated solution of a great many modelling equations) that significant breakthroughs in weather forecasting were achieved.
• Monty Python have been named as being influential to the comedy stylings of a great many people including: Eddie Izzard, Russell Brand, Jerry Seinfeld, "Monty Python's Flying Circus" served as an inspiration for voice actor Rob Paulsen in voicing Pinky from the animated television series "Animaniacs" and "Pinky and the Brain", giving the character "a goofy whack job" of a British accent.
• A person might be branded with a censorial mark in a variety of cases, which it would be impossible to specify, as in a great many instances it depended upon the discretion of the censors and the view they took of a case; and sometimes even one set of censors would overlook an offence which was severely chastised by their successors.