little | few + NOUN – English Grammar Profiler

B2 English Grammar point 59 in the category of DETERMINERS and quantity is defined as:

modifier + ‘little’ + uncountable nouns and modifier + ‘few’ + countable nouns, to indicate a lack of something or not as much as expected of something.

We also have an earlier post for ‘very few + noun.’

_RG\w* (little|few)  _NN

1 VERY FEW PEOPLE 19900 2 VERY LITTLE TIME 8388

3 SO LITTLE TIME 4654

He‘s always in town for so little time.

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4 VERY LITTLE EFFORT 4264

5 VERY LITTLE MONEY 3828 6 VERY LITTLE INFORMATION 3292 7 VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCE 2983 8 SO FEW PEOPLE 2700 9 VERY LITTLE SPACE 2441 10 VERY FEW THINGS 2417 11 VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS 2248 12 VERY LITTLE ROOM 2114 13 VERY LITTLE CHANCE 2063 14 TOO LITTLE TIME 1947 15 AS LITTLE TIME 1867 16 VERY LITTLE WATER 1593 17 VERY FEW PLACES 1552 18 AS LITTLE SURPRISE 1498 19 VERY LITTLE WORK 1492 20 VERY LITTLE EXPERIENCE 1475 21 VERY LITTLE MAINTENANCE 1394 22 VERY LITTLE POWER 1362 23 VERY FEW COMPANIES 1340 24 VERY LITTLE EVIDENCE 1326

25 VERY LITTLE ATTENTION 1269