Example sentences of "any [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many readers will have noticed the absence of any mention of a forthcoming Careers Forum . |
| 2 | In addition to the permanent taps , the monitors have been able to tap a conversation on any telephone within a few seconds by means of the TKO device . |
| 3 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 4 | There are very few of those artists of the 1980s whom I think will have any standing in a few years . |
| 5 | After the 1915 offensives , the troops had come to believe that if Pétain called for an attack there must be some point to it , that it would not be a senseless sacrifice of lives in the way of those over-ambitious generals , out to gain recognition from the conquest at any price of a few yards of enemy trench . |
| 6 | Er I think from Craven 's point of view erm we could n't really see any justification for a strategic exceptions policy in Craven 's case . |
| 7 | Since the review will set out the framework for defence policy for years to come , we will halt any defence cut , and any order for a new weapons system , which might prejudice its outcome . |
| 8 | If they made the bead taste bitter , by dipping it in alcohol , or quinine , or the pungent methylanthranilate , then the chick would peck once , show disgust by shaking its head vigorously and wiping its beak on the floor of its pen , and then back away , refusing to peck at a similar but dry bead offered any time from a few seconds to a few days subsequently . |