From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishprecious little/fewprecious little/few informalLITTLE/NOT MUCHvery little or very few I had precious little time for reading. → precious
Examples from the Corpus
precious little/few• At the moment there is precious little.• Food shopping takes time, a commodity of which most of us have precious little.• From which it follows that many will choose precious little attachment.• I had no answers and precious little consolation to offer him to mitigate the facts.• Eight voices then, and precious little else.• She had to find some other way to save Angel's precious little life, and find it quickly.• Once the polarization occurs, there is precious little Mrs Clinton can do about it.• There are precious few seats inside the court room.• There was precious little to learn. 