Sentence:  She and her husband had formerly lived in New York , where she had <WSD>many</WSD> friends , but Mr. Flannagan thought the country would be safer in case of war . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  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