Indeed, the most telling data point may be that the plane so artfully slipped through the data filters leaving so few data points.
He left so few paintings – not more than 120 over a 40-year career – it is rightly said that he measured out his genius in thimblefuls.
Polly Bemis left so few traces that it's nearly impossible to hang a narrative on her life before the card game (itself in some doubt) that shot her to fame.
The capture of the Libyan, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Anas al-Libi and was indicted on a charge of planning Al Qaeda's 1998 bombing of two American Embassies in East Africa, was so fast and left so few clues behind that Libyans were only slowly coming to grips with what had occurred.
Many would point to their very absence — and the continuing decline in the number of lawmakers like them — as a major contributing factor to the gridlock that has plagued Congress, leaving so few voices in the middle to provide a counterweight to the extremes on both the right and left.
Hummingbird history has long been shrouded in mystery, chiefly because the delicate-boned creatures have left so few fossils.
"But it didn't leave me much," he says, a little affronted that he should be left with so few letters.
The swimmers add that one reason they are left with so few alternatives is that in the past, when groups like the Y.M.C.A. considered opening, they were dissuaded because the existing club said it was serving the whole community.
And it certainly beggars belief that the upkeep of so vital a piece of software as OpenSSL, upon which so much of the world's finance and commerce depends, should be left in so few hands, with so little in the way of resources.
In time, HIV-infected people are left with so few CD4s that their immune systems can no longer fend off even the wimpiest bacteria, viruses, or fungi.
