Sentence:  Painters left less and less of a vase in a plain dark color ; instead they divided the surface into <WSD>many</WSD> bands or covered it by all-over patterns into which freehand drawing began to creep . 
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