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• But there was little if any sign that a cleanup was starting.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• 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
• By 1915, so much water was flowing in the canal to farmlands that little if any was left to sustain the base flow of the Santa Cruz.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• The killings left little if any time to mourn or commemorate.
  — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Regardless, the Ford stock price showed little if any movement.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2021
• There’s often little if any excellence gap between the two groups.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• Our operator had very little if any contact with our two ground vehicles for most of the four runs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Home runs allowed and little if any offensive support coming his way.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
• Hydrogen can be made in ways that yield little if any planet-warming greenhouse gases.
  — Jennifer McDermott, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• Here in Connecticut, the rain was pretty much confined to New London and Windham counties as other locations had little if any to speak of.
  — courant.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• Their students get no help with tuition, and the schools receive little if any of the $650 billion the plan designates for colleges' student success initiatives.
  — David L. Kirp, Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
• Ties between Australia and China have thawed slightly since Mr. Albanese came to power, though there have been little if any policy changes.
  — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Very little if any of that beef will come from the United States, however, since more than 85% of the food at the Glasgow summit, including fruits, vegetables and grains, will be locally sourced.
  — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• Russian Defense Ministry / Telegram All this said, little if any of these technologies or concepts are new.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024
• The play-in is of little if any concern to Dallas, whose magic number for clinching a top-six spot is any combination of two wins or Minnesota defeats.
  — Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Croatia managed to join in 2013, but the rest of the western Balkans made little if any progress toward membership and Turkey remained a candidate in name only.
  — Laszlo Bruszt, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 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
• There’s little if any hard evidence, for example, to confirm Ukrainian claims that its air force -- rather than air defenses -- is shooting down Russian planes.
  — Marc Champion, Bloomberg.com, 11 Mar. 2022
• While that accusation is a staple of online argument, there's little if any evidence of it.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 June 2024
• Neither of Monday’s other two Mavericks roster moves has little if any bearing on Chriss’ status.
  — Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2022
• The regulations on disclosing ownership stakes are only the latest in a long series of rules that Musk has flouted -— with little if any consequence.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 17 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• And, Sheehan said, these towns have little if any ability to raise their taxes, which leaves them without another way option to fund education.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024