few if any

idiom

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

Examples of few if any in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Nor did Israel expect much pushback from its allies, given that the United States had imposed few if any constraints on Israeli military activity since October 7. Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024 But few if any relief supplies would be arriving via ship. Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024 Yet of the hundreds of millions of foreign visitors who were admitted legally into the United States in the two decades after 2001 and the millions more who entered illegally, few if any were agents smuggled in by al Qaeda or ISIS. John Mueller, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 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 5 Nov. 2024.

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