any amount of
Apparence
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]Adjectif indéfini
[modifier le wikicode]any amount of \ˌɛn.i ə.ˈmaʊnt əv\
- (Littéralement) N’importe quelle quantité de. Note d’usage : Utilisé avec un nom indénombrable[1].
- (Royaume-Uni) (Australie) (Nouvelle-Zélande) (Vieilli) Beaucoup de. Note d’usage : Peut être utilisé avec un nom dénombrable[1][2] au contraire des autres locutions avec amount[3][4].
The grass therein is up to the horses’ fetlocks. There is any amount of rhubarb and early vegetables in the garden.
— (Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, 1901, édition 2007, ISBN 9781460401392)There are no men going about the city with barrows, but there are any amount of men going around with carts.
— (Report of Commission on the Cost of Living in New Zealand, 1912)
Synonymes
[modifier le wikicode]- a lot of (« beaucoup de »)
Références
[modifier le wikicode]- ↑ a et b « amount », Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 2008, ISBN 9783125179882 :
▶ idiom any amount of a very large amount of: We had any amount of people applying for the job.
Common mistake: amount of or number of?
Remember: amount of is usually used with uncountable nouns. With countable nouns, don’t say ‘amount of’, say number of:
They received a large number of complaints. - ↑ Google Ngram Viewer, there is any amount of,there are any amount of
- ↑ Google Ngram Viewer, there is some amount of,there are some amount of
- ↑ Google Ngram Viewer, there is a large amount,there are a large amount