Yes, that's to deal with the odd request in the course of year.

He wondered what she had thought of so odd a request.

If a brother from another force called him with an odd request, he would never ask why.

"An odd request," the other woman said as though considering whether to grant it.

"The soldiers said that the Wizard had rejected the odd requests."

By the way, I got rather an odd request from him the other day.

It was an odd request; she should, of course, have brought the present to the house.

A short while later, my 13-year-old daughter startled me with an odd request.

He's gone off to see if your niece is in the park, to try to get more information about this odd request.

It's maybe an odd request but anyone got suggestions to make things look less, um, new?