The phrase "almost any business" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a wide range of businesses or indicating that a statement applies to most businesses without being specific.
Example: "The new marketing strategy can be implemented in almost any business, regardless of its size or industry."
Alternatives: "nearly any company" or "practically any enterprise".
By almost any business measure, the Knight Ridder newspapers in Philadelphia would be deemed a success.
In almost any business, keeping a customer is better than having to replace one.
Out of this IT infrastructure has grown a huge business in "outsourcing" almost any business process that can be performed remotely, from answering a call in a help centre to interpreting an X-ray.
That it has taken so long, he said, is the fault of a white-ruled system that starved black schools, forbade black land ownership and outlawed almost any business more ambitious than a township bodega.
FOR all the hype and the management charts and the impenetrable language, ultimately the product consultancies sell is brains; not the sort that have been schooled in a particular discipline, such as law or accountancy, but the kind that they hope could be set to resolving almost any business problem under the sun.
The firm offers an inexpensive and eminently practical way of uncorking the bottleneck of the "last mile", bringing unheard of amounts of bandwidth to almost any business that wants it.As an awe-struck George Gilder, prophet of the "telecosm" (see article), recently proclaimed: "TeraBeam commands at once the most disruptive and most redemptive technology in all communications.
Officials with the agency say the loans were intended by Congress to provide a national economic stimulus that could be obtained by almost any small business.
Bribes are required to conduct almost any public business, whether it is getting electricity turned on or filing a court case.
"Like almost any family business with a patriarch and children, the long-term future of the Yankees will depend on the need to avoid sibling rivalries and other types of problems," one of the team's limited partners told me.
Go to almost any small business website and you will find you can't make a call.
