"how many arguments" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when asking about the number of reasons or evidence that support a particular statement or claim. Example: "Can you explain to me how this theory is supported? How many arguments does it have?".
It was hard to say how many arguments this sentence must have caused, but when the book came to be reviewed, every critic quoted Gold's hated sentence.
The new owners surely have no idea how many arguments about Christmas trees occurred in that front room, or how many dinners with a surprising cast of characters occurred in the back.
I cannot tell you how many arguments I've gotten into over the past two weeks about this, and I've been astonished at how many people fail to appreciate the athletic significance of this.
Then vote again - and see how many arguments have succeeded in swaying opinions.
We are not going to try to settle this debate, for we think that the question of how many argument-places the desert relation has has little bearing on the questions about desert that arise in moral, social, and political philosophy.
This revives old frictions and suggests how many similar arguments have preceded this one.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin September 30, 2009 How many dubious arguments can one legal team come up with?
How many dubious arguments can one legal team come up with?
A histogram of how many input arguments are passed to each method.
Its patriarchal God presided over empire and scientific progress and the Industrial Age, but even still -- no matter how many passionate arguments I've had with this God over the course of my lifetime -- I was struck, on this beautiful fall afternoon in Chicago, as I stood in the vestibule of Rockefeller Chapel with my out-of-town guests, by this God's absence in contemporary public life.
Having this experience of other people (or of fictional simulacra of people) is an annoyingly persistent habit of actual humans, no matter how many convincing theoretical arguments attempt to bracket and contain the impulse, to carefully unhook it from transcendental ideas, or simply to curse it by one of its many names: realism, humanism, naturalism, figuration.
