Sentence:  The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for <WSD>many</WSD> years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees , and silence was a weight , almost palpable , in the air . 
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