little if any

idiom

: almost no
There has been little if any improvement.

Examples of little if any in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Weeks of winter storms have badly eroded beaches in the northern section of town, leaving little if any sand on which to play during all but the lowest tides. By wayne Parry, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024 Russian Defense Ministry / Telegram All this said, little if any of these technologies or concepts are new. Alexander Smith, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024 Meadows is only too happy to show people his spacious and sunlit office, impressively festooned with White House memorabilia, though with little if any wall space dedicated to commemorating his seven years as a congressman and before that his time as a real estate agent in western North Carolina. Robert Draper, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024 Your preemptive opening described your hand — seven good hearts but little if any defense — and partner doubled three spades for penalty. Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024 Unions, churches, and community organizations play little if any role: Silva’s characters turn to themselves for answers to their pain and disappointment. Jennifer M. Silva, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019 Apart from words, global jihadi groups such as al Qaeda and ISIS have devoted few resources to the Palestinian cause and have little if any presence on the ground in Gaza or the West Bank. Cole Bunzel, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2023 Our operator had very little if any contact with our two ground vehicles for most of the four runs. IEEE Spectrum, 19 Feb. 2020 The killings left little if any time to mourn or commemorate. Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023

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“Little if any.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/little%20if%20any. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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