How to Use little if any in a Sentence

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  • But there was little if any sign that a cleanup was starting.
    Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The killings left little if any time to mourn or commemorate.
    Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Most people reading this will give little if any thought to extensions.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • There’s often little if any excellence gap between the two groups.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • Regardless, the Ford stock price showed little if any movement.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2021
  • As just about everyone would also be taking the subway, there would be little if any fare loss.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Home runs allowed and little if any offensive support coming his way.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Our operator had very little if any contact with our two ground vehicles for most of the four runs.
    IEEE Spectrum, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Hydrogen can be made in ways that yield little if any planet-warming greenhouse gases.
    Jennifer McDermott, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Hydrogen can be made in ways that yield little if any planet-warming greenhouse gases.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 July 2024
  • Many people who have 401(k)s put little if any money into their accounts.
    Michael Steinberger Malcolm Hillgartner Tanya Pérez Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 8 May 2024
  • The president is facing calls for impeachment with little if any defense from his own party.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Given the caveat that these games are more for coaches to use as evaluation tools inasmuch as starters will see little if any time, results may vary.
    Jack Magruder, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Bureaucrats who drew lines that made little if any effort at accommodating the peoples on the ground.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • Most popular rivers now allow little if any rainbow, brown, or cutthroat trout possession.
    Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • All will be well in the Heat’s world, if, through no fault of his own, Dewayne Dedmon sees little if any action.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • And academic studies showed that little if any of the retailers’ savings from the price controls were passed on to consumers.
    John Berlau, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Many of the documents include unverified claims and little if any context.
    Saige Miller, NPR, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Holcomb could veto that measure leaving lawmakers with little if any time to override it before the end of session.
    Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2021
  • In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, the industry operated with little if any oversight.
    Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Shots are 50 cents on Tuesdays, which suggests little if any inflation over a half century on that item.
    The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • While that accusation is a staple of online argument, there's little if any evidence of it.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 June 2024
  • Research has found today's anti-nausea medications used in pregnancy pose little if any risk to the fetus.
    Staff Author, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Research has found today’s anti-nausea medications used in pregnancy pose little if any risk to the fetus.
    Katheryn Houghton, CNN, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Overall, research consistently shows little if any difference in the average test-score outcomes for the two types of schools.
    Kevin Welner, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The quest for only premier art leaves most artists who produce good quality but not world-class works with little if any support system to sustain them and their families.
    Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Before the advent of modern weather forecasting and radar, tornadoes often struck with little if any warning.
    Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Bark is a tawny gray and, at maturity, this tree’s branching structure is a highly symmetrical dome that requires little if any pruning.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
  • While the city may see a wintry mix in the late evening hours, meteorologists have predicted there will be little if any accumulation.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024

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