little or no + NOUN – English Grammar Profiler

‘little or no’ premodifies a noun phrase to literally mean a small or zero amount.  It has a negative context and is often used to be critical.

In the English Grammar Profile, C2 point 56 in the category of NOUNS is defined:

complex noun phrases with ‘little or no’ + noun.

Here are the 50 most common iWeb examples of noun phrases following little or no * *

1 LITTLE OR NO EFFECT ON 726 2 LITTLE OR NO COST . 512 3 LITTLE OR NO KNOWLEDGE OF 422 4 LITTLE OR NO IMPACT ON 330 5 LITTLE OR NO COST TO 283 6 LITTLE OR NO ACCESS TO 278 7 LITTLE OR NO WARNING . 259 8 LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE IN 257 9 LITTLE OR NO INTEREST IN 191 10 LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE WITH 191 11 LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE OF 165 12 LITTLE OR NO CHANCE OF 157 13 LITTLE OR NO UNDERSTANDING OF 145 14 LITTLE OR NO CHANGE IN 140 15 LITTLE OR NO NOTICE . 137 16 LITTLE OR NO EFFORT . 127 17 LITTLE OR NO MONEY . 119 18 LITTLE OR NO ATTENTION TO 115 19 LITTLE OR NO COST , 102

20 LITTLE OR NO REGARD FOR 100

21 LITTLE OR NO CONTROL OVER 97

Noise is stress, especially if we have little or no control over it.

TED

22 LITTLE OR NO VALUE . 88 23 LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE . 86 24 LITTLE OR NO EVIDENCE OF 81 25 LITTLE OR NO BACKGROUND IN 80

26 LITTLE OR NO SUPERVISION. 76

A collocated search:

1 WITH 186 2 MUST 18 3 UNDER 17 4 ABILITY 10

5 PERSON 10

The employee will be working under a flexible schedule with little or no supervision with respect to those assignments.

27 LITTLE OR NO WARNING , 74 28 LITTLE OR NO MONEY DOWN 71 29 LITTLE OR NO HELP FROM 70 30 LITTLE OR NO INPUT FROM 68 31 LITTLE OR NO TRAINING . 65 32 LITTLE OR NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE 65 33 LITTLE OR NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 63 34 LITTLE OR NO CREDIT HISTORY 61 35 LITTLE OR NO PAY . 60 36 LITTLE OR NO EXTRA COST 60 37 LITTLE OR NO DIFFERENCE IN 60 38 LITTLE OR NO CONTACT WITH 58 39 LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE , 58 40 LITTLE OR NO ENGLISH . 57

41 LITTLE OR NO MODIFICATION. 55

1 WITH 124
2 EXISTING 9

Biodiesel can be used in any concentration with petroleum-based diesel fuel 

with little or no modification to existing diesel engines.

context

3 CONSIDERED 9 4 INVOLVE 5

5 PROVIDES 5

42 LITTLE OR NO CONTROL . 53 43 LITTLE OR NO DAMAGE . 53 44 LITTLE OR NO RISK . 53 45 LITTLE OR NO SIDE EFFECTS 49 46 LITTLE OR NO CHANGE FROM 49 47 LITTLE OR NO EFFECT . 49 48 LITTLE OR NO LOSS OF 48 49 LITTLE OR NO EVIDENCE TO 48

50 LITTLE OR NO EVIDENCE THAT 48

B2 vocabulary:

evidence, impact, input, loss, risk

C1:
modification, supervision