Example sentences of "[det] [conj] a handful of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Peters , Michael Porter and the venerable Peter Drucker — these and a handful of others , all American academics except for Britain 's Charles Handy , are the spiritual leaders of the business world , the high priests of management . |
| 2 | If the kitchen climate is changing , it 's because working conditions have lost the barrack room brutality which once characterised what was a pretty sordid job in all but a handful of restaurants and hotels . |
| 3 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 4 | All but a handful of booksellers agreed to sign a written undertaking not to sell the book , but Peter Marsh , 45 , who owns Bilbo 's in Bath , decided to take on the Government . |
| 5 | By 1982 we had swept up all but a handful of awkward items whose inhabitants , for varying reasons , did n't want to be or could n't be ‘ nationalised ’ — which was very untidy and inconvenient of them . |
| 6 | All but a handful of the 18,298 crowd stayed in their places but their growing frustration reached fever pitch in the 88th minute when Adams stole in unmarked at the far post to volley home Le Tissier 's inviting cross . |
| 7 | While political independence is a contemporary and important fact of life in all but a handful of countries , the economic incorporation of their economies into the world economy continues and deepens . |
| 8 | It included trade and financial liberalization , and the ending of price controls on all but a handful of basic goods and services . |
| 9 | For a long while , Dave was second only to Johnny Byrne among our post-war goalscorers though , of course , all but a handful of ‘ Budgie 's ’ goals were scored in the lower divisions . |
| 10 | Marc Bloch showed that on two estates in the heart of northern France there were in the ninth century only twenty-five servi ( slaves or serfs ) out of 278 householders ; whereas at the end of the twelfth century all but a handful of the population of these villages were serfs ; none slaves . |
| 11 | Underground cellars may be cool enough for all but a handful of northerly ( ArticBoreal ) species . |
| 12 | On Orkney 's west coast cliffs we filmed the memorial to Lord Kitchener and the men of the Hampshire which had struck a mine near the shore in 1916 and gone down with all but a handful of survivors ; in the Flow we spoke to divers still bringing up steel and copper from the Kaiser 's sunken High Seas Fleet ; and on the island of Lamb Holm on the eastern side we filmed a sequence of the little Catholic chapel , fashioned out of a Nissen hut by Italian prisoners-of-war who had built a causeway linking the islands after Prien 's successful foray in U.47 against the Royal Oak . |
| 13 | And while the recession has deterred all but a handful of non-Italian dealers from participating this year , the organisers are hoping that by aiming high in all senses , the event will rapidly establish itself as a rival to the Florence fair . |
| 14 | This presupposes co-operation between services ( p 15 ) , yet workers in all but a handful of local authorities could attest to resources and personnel not being made available to effect the good working links advocated in official reports . |
| 15 | If the lower clergy had been sympathetic to church reform on ‘ Jansenist ’ lines the hierarchy was hostile and , as the liberal attack on church property developed , it was joined by all but a handful of liberal priests . |
| 16 | With Oliver Cromwell 's approval he took his seat on 7 February , bringing his legal and administrative experience to the task , and he attended all but a handful of recorded meetings between 7 February and 5 December . |
| 17 | The absence of all but a handful of examples in the biographical sources of this method of obtaining mevleviyets leads to the inference that someone obtaining a mevleviyet by this route could not expect to get much further in the hierarchy ; and indeed the provision itself , while not prohibiting the practice , does remove one of the principal prerogatives of the holders of mevleviyets . |
| 18 | All but a handful of LEAs bid for these grants ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.1 ; CIPFA , 1989 , p. 18 ) . |
| 19 | In particular , what much of it fails to do is to convince all but a handful of academic specialists that its closely delineated studies are anything more than detailed local knowledge , an interesting but benign academic pursuit . |
| 20 | Although intonation has been extensively studied in the last few decades , detailed descriptions of all but a handful of well-known languages are few , and the wide variety of theoretical assumptions which underlie them makes comparison difficult . |
| 21 | The pact also provided for 300 UN guards , all but a handful of whom were to be stationed in northern Iraq , and an unspecified number of aid workers . |
| 22 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
| 23 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 24 | He paused and the meeting observed a thirty-second silence in honour of Richard Fairley who had left the partnership a year previously for considerably more than a handful of silver , taking with him Regina Securities ' main reason for being interested in paying Yeo Davis 's bills . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 28 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate nowhere else to go . |
| 29 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate black nation-state . |
| 30 | This is because in England there is no statute or code setting out the law governing the continuing care of the terminally ill ; nor are there more than a handful of cases that have been decided by the courts.l None the less , legal principles undoubtedly do exist and obviously condition the choices made by doctors . |