How many times do you do the 3rd -->2nd tone change?

I've learned that the 3rd tone changes to a 2nd tone when preceding another 3rd tone, and that pattern sort of continues on.

你好 ni2 hao3

我很好 wo3 hen2 hao3

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Does that just keep going? Like if I had the sentence 我有五匹马 is that pronounced wo3 you2 wu3 pi2 ma3? Or perhaps is it sort of split into phrases? like [wo2 you3] [wu3 pi2 ma3]?

It seems like it'd be hard to do a long phrase because you'd have to count how many 3rd tones before you read it.

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