The phrase "almost any effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a wide range of efforts, regardless of their intensity or type, are acceptable or sufficient in a given context.
Example: "With almost any effort, you can achieve significant improvements in your skills."
Alternatives: "nearly any attempt" or "virtually any endeavor".
That means, as Mr. Bush stated this week in reversing his campaign promise, almost any effort to cut emissions must curtail the use of coal, which now supplies 56percentt of the country's electricity.
Powerful, well-funded, and vocal special interest groups will fight almost any effort to reform the Medicaid program.
Conservatives, however, are bound to cheer almost any effort to cut government wages.
But, then, almost any federal effort to protect those things would be similarly inadmissable.
And – like almost any other effort in life, you can do that navigation in an honest, high-integrity way that looks for the balance between what's good for you and what's good for others and the larger enterprise, or you can do it in a way that focuses only on you winning, and too bad for everyone else.
That same statement could be made about almost any worthwhile effort.
Taken at face value, Arizona's bill – which was defeated in 2012 – would have curtailed almost any sustainability efforts in the state, restricted the activities of tens of thousands of philanthropic organizations that promote sustainability, and potentially scared away hundreds of sustainability-minded companies.
But Russia would almost certainly veto any effort to obtain United Nations Security Council authorization to take military action.
It's almost certain that any effort at controlling this species, as with the introduced Burmese pythons spreading in Florida, will at best be a holding operation.
Racial and ethnic tensions almost always surrounded any effort at school change, and they were particularly evident in the months leading up to the selection of Richard Green, who became the city's first black chancellor in March 1988.
In the nine months I've had this transfer running I've put away almost $1,000 without any effort, and using an amount that I don't miss from my weekly budget.
