Historical clue formulations

• Handful — 2026-07-23
• Hardly any — 2025-08-18
• Not many — 2025-03-10
• Handful — 2025-01-18
• Meager — 2024-12-29
• Limited number — 2024-04-21
• Hardly any — 2024-01-29
• Not a lot — 2023-12-19
• "Select" or "chosen" quantity — 2023-11-29
• Not many — 2023-07-26
• Not very many — 2023-05-08
• ___ and far between — 2023-04-04
• Hardly any — 2022-04-26
• Smattering — 2022-03-11
• Sprinkling — 2021-12-31
• Not many — 2021-09-15
• Quantity that sounds like an expression of relief — 2021-04-16
• Adjective in a U.S. Marines ad — 2020-12-30
• Select ___ — 2020-05-22
• Small set — 2020-03-18
• Not many — 2019-09-29
• Handful — 2019-07-19
• Handful — 2018-08-19
• Small number — 2018-06-21
• Small bunch — 2018-04-30
• "The ___, the Proud, the Marines" — 2017-02-07
• Not many — 2015-11-06
• Couple or so — 2015-08-28
• Not a lot — 2014-03-12
• Small number — 2013-05-30
• Not many — 2013-04-04
• How many are chosen? — 2012-12-08
• Small number — 2012-09-27
• Handful — 2012-01-08
• Sprinkling — 2010-04-10
• Many's opposite — 2009-05-05
• Small number — 2009-03-09
• Small number — 2008-12-04
• Small number — 2007-09-23
• Small number — 2007-08-27
• Not many — 2007-07-04
• Sprinkling — 2006-04-02
• "The ___, the proud, the Marines" — 2006-02-15
• Handful — 2005-08-15
• Not very many — 2005-06-14
• Elite group, with "the" — 2004-02-08
• Not a lot — 2003-05-06
• Description for the Marines — 2003-05-04
• "Chosen" number — 2002-06-23
• "... let thy words be ___": Eccl. — 2001-03-31