单词 | little or no |
释义 | > as lemmaslittle or no —— c. little or no ——: hardly any ——. ΚΠ 1538 R. Pole in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lxxxiii. 208 You say, I make many plagues, but lay little or no salve to heal them. 1613 A. Standish New Direct. 3 Within a very few years there wil be little or no wood left for any vse. 1699 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. (ed. 4) §167. 300 All his Bustle and Pother will be to little or no purpose. 1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 489 Each of these injections was retained with little or no inconvenience. 1792 W. Cowper in Speaker (new ed.) vii. xxxv. 328 Luckless brains, That..Indite much metre with much pains, And little or no meaning. a1859 T. De Quincey Posthumous Wks. (1893) II. 154 If the non-culture of the human race allowed them to break out into war with little or no preparation. 1907 Daily Chron. 31 Dec. 3/4 The ‘Terries’ will be made to feel that there is little or no difference between them and the Tommies. 1944 Fortune Mar. 263/1 There has been little or no jerry-building. 2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 358 Sperm whale teeth, baleen and whalebone were of little or no commercial value. < as lemmas |
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