precious little English

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Few, little

• What words indicate that there is a very small amount of something?
  not much very little to speak of hardly any scarcely any almost no minimal negligible precious little next to nothing a smattering of a scrap of tiny minute

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Admiral Zheng He's enormous ships and his emperor's grandiose ambitions had done precious little for China.

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Our intense desire to take all that we can from nature leaves precious little for other forms of life.