How to Use as few as in a Sentence

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  • Thanks to its compact growth and evergreen foliage, the fairy magnolia, for example, makes a handsome hedge that can rise as high as 12 feet in as few as seven years.
    — Nina Malkin, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The project, which may open in as few as five years but could take as long as 10 years to be fully complete, will be Razon’s biggest gaming property in terms of size and his most ambitious.
    — Ian Sayson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Your partner might have an 18-point hand or a shapely hand with as few as 11 points.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
  • Volunteers do not have to be available for the full span of time and can sign up for as few as one shift.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The site claims cookies arrive in as few as two business days.
    — Darnell Mayberry | , cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • Cleveland can leave town trailing by as few as three games or as many as nine.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Both programs are self-paced and can be completed in as few as four weeks.
    — Ashley Braun, Health, 26 June 2023
  • Farmers had no choice but to limit harvesting to as few as three days a year.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Farmers had no choice but to limit harvesting to as few as three days a year.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • And in the case of TV writers, those gigs have shrunk in duration as shows have gone from more than 20 episodes per season to as few as half a dozen.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • Once Netflix bargains with SAG for a new contract, season 2 could be done in as few as 12 months.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 June 2024
  • Once Netflix bargains with SAG for a new contract, season 2 could be done is as few as 12 months.
    — Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But some applicants could need to answer as few as 18 questions and be able to do so in less than 10 minutes.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Reports claim the event could feature as few as ten vehicles.
    — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Oil and gas companies said the changes, which could take effect in as few as 60 days, would damage the economy.
    — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Though, if prior Zelda discounts are anything to go by (as few as there have been), these deals will not stick around long.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 20 June 2023
  • The technology could speed up a manned trip to Mars from the current seven-month minimum to as few as 45 days.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But researchers found that as few as 3,967 steps daily were enough to start reducing the risk of early death from all causes.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Of those storms, as few as five and as many as nine are expected to mature into hurricanes.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 1 June 2023
  • The ships here are smaller, with some carrying as few as 16 passengers.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2023
  • In his ten years at the university, he’s taught up to five classes in a semester, or as few as two classes.
    — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Approved applicants sign a contract with the state that can last as few as five years or as many as 20, but companies have to prove their growth each year.
    — Shannon Sollitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The most significant change would have reduced the number of days of data a clinician would have to review, to be paid, from 16 to as few as two.
    — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Russian tanks could reach the outskirts of the Latvian and Estonian capitals in as few as 36 hours.
    — Dariusz Kalan, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2016
  • This strategy conceals most of the fish inside the ball and exposes as few as possible.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Outcomes for the illness began to change as few as five years ago, when drugs that rally the body’s own immune system to fight the disease began to show promise.
    — Jill Vejnoska, ajc, 6 Dec. 2015
  • And starting next spring, the airline will allow all Rapid Rewards members to pay for a trip with a combination of cash and points, putting as few as 1,000 points toward the bill.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2023
  • What to expect Cicadas will become a sight to see across several states, though as few as two—Illinois and Indiana—will be able to see both broods.
    — TIME, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The majority of the specimens researchers found sported eight tentacles, though some had as few as six and one had 11.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The Constitution permits Congress to decide how many justices there will be, and that number has varied from as few as five to as many as ten.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 29 July 2024

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