any number of

1. Many; also, no particular amount of. The meaning here depends on the context. I can give you any number of reasons for John's absence means I can offer many reasons. Any number of subscribers might stay home means that an unknown number will not attend.

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Since my days in the Finnbar kitchen, there is constantly a quart of mushroom sugo in my refrigerator at home, to be used in any number of applications.

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Responding to the report, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the government would learn lessons from the report and was already "taking measures to make sure that, not just the NHS but the government as a whole, is prepared for any number of eventualities".

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On one point they were in firm agreement: they would happily howl at the moon, chew on expensive leather shoes, climb the furniture, and wreak havoc in any number of wolfish ways, but under no circumstances would they go back to hunting squirrels.

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“I could give lessons in any number of subjects,” she thought, “but not poetry. There are simply too many poems about shipwrecks, which would hardly be suitable, given the circumstances.”

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Perhaps things worked differently here in Germany, home of the Brothers Grimm and their peculiar tales about frog kings and golden geese, cottages made of candy and people no bigger than a thumb, little girls in bloodred capes and, of course, any number of tricky and dangerous wolves.

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