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Forms: nombreuses, nombreux. - She has won **numerous** prizes. Elle a gagné de **nombreux** prix. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8300367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8300367) [\#8296829](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8296829)) - Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, and **numerous**, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. Quelques instants s'écoulèrent encore, puis un bruit de pas, mesuré, pesant, **nombreux**, se fit entendre distinctement du côté de Saint-Leu. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24493) - (The Emim lived there before, a great and **numerous** people, and tall as the Anakim. (Les Émim y habitaient auparavant; c’était un peuple grand, **nombreux** et de haute taille, comme les Anakim. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 2:10) - On **numerous** issues we are still at the stage of intentions. Sur de **nombreuses** questions on en est toujours au stade des intentions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1789463) - See the AA report and the **numerous** reports referred to therein. Voir le rapport d’AA et les **nombreux** rapports qui y sont mentionnés. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5658120) ## beaucoup Used about 930 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 132 · UN documents ≈ 792). - Sleeping is considered a waste of time by **numerous** people. Pour **beaucoup** de gens, dormir est une perte de temps. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gib and manuk7 · checked, community translation · [\#9891441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9891441) [\#1387376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1387376)) - On the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in his body many dilemmas and **numerous** syllogisms which had struck in, he halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and made very great efforts to convince it. Le jour où le rhéteur Gymnastoras sortit de prison, ayant dans le corps **beaucoup** de dilemmes et de syllogismes rentrés, il s'arrêta devant le premier arbre qu'il rencontra, le harangua, et fit de très grands efforts pour le convaincre. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11593) - The report contains **numerous** common positions. Le rapport comprend **beaucoup** de nos positions communes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 138291) - **Numerous** employees of corporate bodies, amongst them several banks, regularly engage in dealings that lend credence to the notion expressed by Bradley K. Googins. Parmi les employés des sociétés, **beaucoup**, notamment dans le secteur bancaire, s ' engagent régulièrement dans des transactions qui confortent l ' idée de Bradley K. Googins. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 12254196) - Sleeping is regarded as a waste of time by **numerous** people. Pour **beaucoup** de gens, dormir est une perte de temps. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gib and manuk7 · checked, community translation · [\#9891466](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9891466) [\#1387376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1387376)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - There are **numerous** hypotheses that may explain this phenomenon. Il y a plusieurs hypothèses pour expliquer ce phénomène. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · [\#485090](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/485090) [\#484609](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/484609)) - I repeated the same thing **numerous** times. J'ai redit la même chose plusieurs fois. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bekindtoall and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#10250665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10250665) [\#330214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/330214)) - The decision makers are more **numerous** than the executors. C'est l'armée mexicaine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#6812561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6812561) [\#1223071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1223071)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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