Example sentences of "[verb] more than a handful " in BNC.
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| 1 | His band of defectors , called the Socialist Janata Dal , can not hope to win more than a handful of seats in the coming general election . |
| 2 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 3 | Yes , we still have to use a printer to produce the newsletter , printing more than a handful form a laser printer simply is n't an economical proposition . |
| 4 | or him that thought more than a handful |
| 5 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 6 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 7 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |