English term
France
Certified translator-English/Chinese →FR
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France)
Works in: English to French, Chinese to French, French
as little as
J'ai pensé à "dans un délai express/ maximal de 15 minutes suivant votre arrivée" (un peu lourd), ou encore "dans les 15 minutes suivant votre arrivée", mais dans ce dernier cas, "as little as" disparaît...
Merci pour vos suggestions !
Nov 2, 2011 14:15: Stéphanie Soudais changed "Field (specific)" from "Tourism & Travel" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"
Non-PRO (2): Françoise Vogel, GILLES MEUNIER
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Proposed translations
Argentina
French freelance translator
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, Spanish to French
aussi rapidement que 15 minutes après votre arrivée
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Note added at 4 mins (2011-11-02 14:08:31 GMT)
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ou "aussi brièvement"
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Saro Nova
: this is good too, and so is your answer Odile (using maximal)
2 mins
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merci!
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GILLES MEUNIER
: je trouve ça un peu lourd....
7 mins
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vous n'avez pas tort ;-p
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Jennifer Levey
: That's what the ST says.
17 mins
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merci!
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Laura Nagle (X)
22 mins
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merci
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AllegroTrans
7 hrs
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Giunia Totaro
: Je suis d'accord avec Gilles
1 day 2 hrs
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Spain
Les langues, une passion, une vocation.
Native in: French
Works in: Spanish to French, English to French, Portuguese to French
15 minutes à peine/seulement
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Johanne Bouthillier
0 min
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Merci!
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GILLES MEUNIER
9 mins
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Merci!
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Françoise Vogel
13 mins
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Merci!
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Jennifer Levey
: You are mis-interpreting the expression 'as little as'.
17 mins
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Then we could say "dans un délai express/record pouvant aller jusqu'à 15 minutes à peine après votre arrivée".... but it is so long, clumsy...
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AllegroTrans
7 hrs
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Merci!
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Serious and meeting of deadlines guarant
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, Spanish to French
en 15 minutes à peine
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Jennifer Levey
: You are mis-interpreting the expression 'as little as'.
16 mins
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Spain
Post-Graduate Translator & Interpreter
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France)
Works in: English to French, Spanish to French, Catalan to French
en seulement
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-11-02 15:37:08 GMT)
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OK thanks media. for your explanation. Then I would say "en une quinzaine de minutes" because it would sound pejorative in FR to say "en minimum 15 mn" (we don't say this when what we mean is that it should be fast - isn't it what they suggest here?)
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GILLES MEUNIER
6 mins
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Jennifer Levey
: You seem to have overlooked the expression 'as little as'.
15 mins
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Chile
Human-scale Globalization
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
aussi peu que
--> qqchose comme :
dans l'air dans aussi peu que 15 minutes après votre arrivée
As noted in the discussion, 'from' should be omitted from the English (or maybe replaced by 'in').
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à partir de seulement
vous pouvez décoller à partir de seulement 15 minutes après votre arrivée
Discussion
The translation should not lead readers to assume that the 15-minute period can be extended towards some shorter period.
And the source text is not 'evasive'. It's deceitful. It is designed to mislead readers - and as most of the answers on this page have shown, it has been quite successful!
"QUELQUES 15 minutes après votre arrivée" might convey the idea of a fast move while keeping up the evasiveness of the ST.
Same strategy as for sale items indeed : "à partir de X euro".
'as little as 15 minutes' does not mean, as suggested by Odile in her question, that it equates to 'dans un delai maximal de 15 minutes'. In fact, 15 minutes is the minimum time taken between arrival and getting airborne. The average time taken will be longer (and maybe much longer...).
It's like those slogans at sale time: "up to 70% off!" - which means there might be just one item with a 70% discount - and everything else is only discounted by 10%.
Btw: there's an error in the English - the word 'from' is superfluous. It should read: "you can be airborne as little as 15 minutes after your arrival."