Sentence examples for were next to none from inspiring English sources

"But there were next to none hired as mechanics".

Her chances of evading capture and termination were next to none.

When he enrolled at San Francisco in the fall of 2015, his chances of playing baseball were next to none.

The chance of a party this year is next to none.

Of patriotic self-control on Monday there was next to none.

The durability of Costello's international respect is next to none.

"The likelihood of getting the right person for the job was next to none," says Mr Stier.

There are next to none behind the late 19th- and early 20th-century brownstones of the Upper West Side and Harlem.

The rains failed early this year in Kenya and Ethiopia, and there has been next to none for two years now in Somalia.

There was next to none of the wild shrieking and shouting one would expect from the "mass hysteria" that was claimed.

Indeed, we may feel that we have all the private detail we need, which is just as well, because there is next to none of it in Blair's new memoir, "A Journey" (Knopf; $35).