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• The ships here are smaller, with some carrying as few as 16 passengers.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2023
• Your partner might have an 18-point hand or a shapely hand with as few as 11 points.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
• Volunteers do not have to be available for the full span of time and can sign up for as few as one shift.
  — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
• The site claims cookies arrive in as few as two business days.
  — Darnell Mayberry | , cleveland, 29 July 2023
• Cleveland can leave town trailing by as few as three games or as many as nine.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
• Both programs are self-paced and can be completed in as few as four weeks.
  — Ashley Braun, Health, 26 June 2023
• Farmers had no choice but to limit harvesting to as few as three days a year.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Farmers had no choice but to limit harvesting to as few as three days a year.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2024
• And in the case of TV writers, those gigs have shrunk in duration as shows have gone from more than 20 episodes per season to as few as half a dozen.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• Once Netflix bargains with SAG for a new contract, season 2 could be done in as few as 12 months.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 June 2024
• Once Netflix bargains with SAG for a new contract, season 2 could be done is as few as 12 months.
  — Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
• But some applicants could need to answer as few as 18 questions and be able to do so in less than 10 minutes.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2024
• Reports claim the event could feature as few as ten vehicles.
  — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Oil and gas companies said the changes, which could take effect in as few as 60 days, would damage the economy.
  — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Though, if prior Zelda discounts are anything to go by (as few as there have been), these deals will not stick around long.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 20 June 2023
• The technology could speed up a manned trip to Mars from the current seven-month minimum to as few as 45 days.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2023
• But researchers found that as few as 3,967 steps daily were enough to start reducing the risk of early death from all causes.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 9 Aug. 2023
• Of those storms, as few as five and as many as nine are expected to mature into hurricanes.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 1 June 2023
• In his ten years at the university, he’s taught up to five classes in a semester, or as few as two classes.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Approved applicants sign a contract with the state that can last as few as five years or as many as 20, but companies have to prove their growth each year.
  — Shannon Sollitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• The most significant change would have reduced the number of days of data a clinician would have to review, to be paid, from 16 to as few as two.
  — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 15 Feb. 2024
• Russian tanks could reach the outskirts of the Latvian and Estonian capitals in as few as 36 hours.
  — Dariusz Kalan, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2016
• This strategy conceals most of the fish inside the ball and exposes as few as possible.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
• Outcomes for the illness began to change as few as five years ago, when drugs that rally the body’s own immune system to fight the disease began to show promise.
  — Jill Vejnoska, ajc, 6 Dec. 2015
• And starting next spring, the airline will allow all Rapid Rewards members to pay for a trip with a combination of cash and points, putting as few as 1,000 points toward the bill.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2023
• What to expect Cicadas will become a sight to see across several states, though as few as two—Illinois and Indiana—will be able to see both broods.
  — TIME, 19 Jan. 2024
• The majority of the specimens researchers found sported eight tentacles, though some had as few as six and one had 11.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• The Constitution permits Congress to decide how many justices there will be, and that number has varied from as few as five to as many as ten.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 29 July 2024
• United States officials estimate that as few as 50 of the hostages in Gaza are still alive, according to a report Thursday.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 23 June 2024
• This idea has the virtue of being constitutional — the Court has had as few as five seats and as many as 10 in the past — and it could be done at any time through ordinary legislation.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024