Example sentences of "anything from [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In Western cooking such a mixture can add zing to almost anything from scrambled eggs to vegetables , soups , stews and sauces and poached or baked fruits , with the grateful advantage that the result will not taste as though you have succumbed to panic and thrown in a spoonful of curry powder .
2 A good tube-ride might score anything from 8 to 10 .
3 More than 50 put Labour in the lead by margins of anything from 1 to 7 per cent .
4 The total annual increment can take anything from 1 to 5 months for completion .
5 The retreat consisted , and still does , of anything from five to thirty days of spiritual exercises , usually in an atmosphere of silence and contemplation apart from listening to the preacher when there is one , but with additional features of both vocal and silent prayer .
6 Professor Robert E. Ornstein of the University of California , a recognised expert in left and right brain research , has proved that when you develop the second side of your brain you actually enhance your mental powers by anything from five to ten times its previous level .
7 This can be anything from five pages on someone like Dame Edna Everage — because she 's a fictional person ( or did n't you know ? ) to thirty or forty pages for the Elizabeth Taylors of the world .
8 Almost every high street building society and bank is offering fixed-rate deals in the ten to eleven per cent band ( the APR is slightly higher ) which offer borrowers anything from five years to 25 years of stability .
9 we was engaged , oh I have talked to other people but we was engaged in making locks but most of the locks , well they did do a , er wardrobe locks , small cabinet locks , lever locks but one of the biggest kind of locks we di er made was the locks for car cars and vans which , in them days , was was fantastic because most of the car bodies was of wood , the , the , the , the framework was wood , so erm the locks er were three or four , four by five er seven by eight and selvedges on them fourteen inches long , er bolts er the , the bolt mechanism would be anything from five eighths to an inch in di er er square with a radius on the end erm th there was er there was the sidecar locks which were smaller erm that was the sort of locks they made .
10 Bills mature in ninety-one days from the date of issue ( and are therefore very liquid ) while bonds can mature at anything from five years from their date of issue to never .
11 The latter suggest the presence of several wealthy inhabitants , principally in the third and fourth centuries , but the individual examples could represent anything from rural establishments to official residences .
12 The running time is twenty six minutes , we might as well get that right , we had er , er several people commenting on the running time of the other video , but er people had different of estimates , anything from fifteen to twenty five minutes .
13 We then went to assembly which lasted anything from fifteen to twenty five minutes , we would then go into our classrooms and do whatever we were told .
14 An interview can last anything from fifteen minutes to a few hours , though normally one hour is considered long , so it is essential to maintain the informant 's interest and attention for the duration .
15 Lifeboat organisations range from the gully government- funded to the fully voluntary , and operate anything from hundreds of sophisticated lifeboats to a handful of vessels .
16 Here at the Moredon Community Gardening Centre , there are regular classes on anything from hanging baskets to dried flower arranging .
17 This can include anything from racist jokes to actual physical violence .
18 At the moment we have a sixty limit for lorries , while it can be anything from fifty two to sixty five in mainland Europe .
19 Sure enough , Andy 's new baby is a delicious-sounding thing — crisp , subtle and very , very sensitive , perfect for anything from complex traditional-style tunes through to New Age doodlings , thumb-picked ragtime or simply strumming with a light pick .
20 They may have been suffering with anything from stress-related migraines to pre-menstrual tension .
21 Anything from Roman jugs and vases to intricate jewellry from the Anglo-Saxon era .
22 Anything from Roman jugs and vases to intricate jewellry from the Anglo-Saxon era .
23 It is busy , open all hours , and full of shops which sell anything from ancient Chinese herbs and medicines to electronic gadgetry .
24 ‘ You know I would n't take anything from that woman , and I do n't know how you can , Maria . ’
25 An' I do n't want anything from that house or yer mother , ’ he told her .
26 I do n't conclude anything from that either , except that fancying is a complicated business .
27 It 's difficult to tell anything from that smooth Madonna face . ’
28 You 've er got a copy of my written statement and I 'll try to avoid repeating anything from that document , but it leans heavily on this which is the Richmondshire local plan interim statement .
29 So there would n't be anything from that point of view .
30 . You had to learn all about anything from other girls . ’
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