few if any

idiom

: not very many or none at all
There are few if any details about the accident.

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Very few if any Jewish characters (outside of Noah, who is mensch) act with any kind of godliness — toward Joanne or even each other. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024 Worse, few if any in Washington seem bothered by the situation and those few who talk about deficits insist on distractions and studiously avoid the fraught politics implicit in where the budget’s underlying problem lies: the uncontrollable growth of entitlements spending. Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 Because courts bend over backward to leave decisions in this area to the political branches, and Congress tends to shirk accountability and defer to the executive branch, there are few if any nonpolitical checks on this tendency. Stephen Pomper, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2021 Businesses and consumers The fact that goods will start to flow again in relatively short order, and that there will be few if any shortages, can only be considered a win for businesses that ship goods, as well as the consumers who buy them. Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for few if any 

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“Few if any.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/few%20if%20any. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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