Sentence:  In <WSD>many</WSD> of the syllables , intonation can be safely ignored , and much of the tonal analysis can be done without any study of intonation . 
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