Taka  +  229640 Sat, 27 May 06 04:59 PM (1) It takes as much as two hours to get to the station. (2) It takes as many as two hours to get to the station. Are they both correct? If not, why not? Taka Joined on Tue, Sep 7 2004 Japan Senior Member 2,625

	Marius Hancu  +  229643 Sat, 27 May 06 05:06 PM I tend to see these versions, I think: It takes as much as two hours to get to the station. It takes as long as two hours to get to the station. Marius Hancu Joined on Wed, Apr 26 2006 Veteran Member 11,673

	Grammar Geek  +  229683 Sat, 27 May 06 08:10 PM I think all three (as much as, as long as, a many as) are all fine, although "as many as" sounds a little less common in this context. I'm thinking that many should be used with countable nouns. For example: How big can the team be? You can have as many as twelve people on your team. (But I don't think "as much as twelve people" sounds right.) Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random! Nouns, Countable Nouns