Preposition: in

• style: Although anecdotal in style, this work contains some useful material.

Modifies a noun

• evidence: In the short term there is anecdotal evidence of a large increase in users of the path over the summer of 2004.

• story: Some women have heard anecdotal stories of hormones being successful.

• report: There are few anecdotal reports which tell us how many bats there were in the past.

• tale: John tells the following anecdotal tales of his ancestors.

• feedback: In the meantime, anecdotal feedback from patients seems to be resolutely positive.

• observation: Does anybody know of any research that has been undertaken on this subject, or failing this, has anybody got any anecdotal observations.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: Little information on these, other than the purely anecdotal, was amassed by DTI and DH.

• largely: Evidence for functional improvement, however, was largely anecdotal.

• merely: It would address no real historical issue and remain merely anecdotal.

• somewhat: The level of price increases on BW's mooring sites has been somewhat anecdotal.

• mainly: Currently the best proof we have that they are valid is mainly anecdotal.

• much: There has been much anecdotal talk as to why the rate has increased significantly over the last twenty years.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Most did not provide quantitative data so the reports remain anecdotal.

• consider: The majority of clinical work to date is considered anecdotal ( Young & Ballard, 1999 ).

• become: The problem is that inevitably a clinical description becomes anecdotal, since every case is, literally, unique in its extent and distribution.