I have a data set, I calculate the correlation matrix and get eigen values for PCA. I want to intuitively understand following features

 1. Number of significant eigenvalues. In my dataset, some matrices have only 3 or 4 significant eigenvalues(the value drops from like 140-200 to 1). However some have relatively large number of significant eigenvalues. After 20-50 eigenvalues, the magnitude drops to 1. What is this telling me ?

 2. Magnitude of first few eigenvalues. If I take 3-4 largest values and some data subset have large eigen values and some have less, what is this telling me ?