Example sentences of "[prep] any number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you really start to think of the components that can be changed in a room without too much ado you can come up with any number of ideas for a change of style , or more important , for adding style where none existed before . |
| 2 | A function may be defined with any number of parameters of any type , and may return ( using = ) a string or numeric result . |
| 3 | A procedure may be defined with any number of parameters of any type . |
| 4 | 8 The class may be divided into any number of levels without increasing the number of teachers . |
| 5 | In sum , then , there is no reason to believe that , in a complex machine , the real processes can be inferred reliably from any number of observations of internal behaviour ( in the sense in which the changing of register contents expressed in binary numbers is internal behaviour ) , in the absence of knowledge of a quite different type : the language in which the processes have been expressed to the machine . |
| 6 | Banned from the dressingroom areas and the touchline , he could turn up in any number of disguises from hot-pie salesman to unhelpful steward . |
| 7 | With this system , video programmes are relayed from one central player to any number of monitors in classrooms . |
| 8 | Both could have passed through any number of hands before being finally installed in the Toshiba radio-cassette player used to house the Lockerbie bomb . |
| 9 | A good picture is worth any number of words for it can communicate a point quickly and succinctly , and in any language . |