Example sentences of "[subord] a handful [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no articles on video technology , although a handful of book reviews perhaps indicate a determination to cover it in future . |
| 2 | Although a handful of poems were written in times of solitude or loneliness , the great bulk of her poetry was written for Freemantle or for other friends . |
| 3 | As yet there is no formal stock exchange , although a handful of securities are traded on the over-the-counter market . |
| 4 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate nowhere else to go . |
| 7 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate black nation-state . |
| 8 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 9 | Naïve unsophisticated statements such as these marked a regeneration which perhaps must be experienced by more than a handful of prisoners if we are to care enough about civilization to want to save it . |
| 10 | Except that there was no way Third World countries could develop that fast : there was room for no more than a handful of South Koreas or Singapores , ready to beat the West at its own game . |
| 11 | Here was I , struggling to free a walnut from its convoluted enclosure , exalting when at last I managed to obtain a whole half rather than a handful of shards , while in the next room was a packet replete with whole halves . |
| 12 | Two hours later they pushed their way out from the cover of the trees into a tiny clearing no more than a handful of yards across . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It left very few records and , even at its height , seems to have employed no more than a handful of men . |
| 15 | But victory ran true to racing 's adage ‘ there 's nothing like experience ’ because the winner was ridden by Pat Leech , who has ridden more than 150 winners , while the two market leaders were partnered by riders with less than a handful of winners between them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Little more than a handful of people have died there in 22 years of the ‘ troubles ’ . |
| 18 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 19 | There are , in practice , no more than a handful of schools in the UK still teaching deaf children with PGSS . |
| 20 | In the course of his farming life , Quentin Seddon kept no more than a handful of pigs . |
| 21 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is necessary to look for concentrations of finds because a handful of finds could have got onto the land in any number of ways and is not necessarily an indication of the presence of a nearby archaeological site . |
| 24 | AT THE CORNER OF Utica and St John 's , Grand Puba 's single ‘ 360 Degrees ’ pumps from a parked car while a handful of youths hang out by the kerb . |
| 25 | English Hops began their development of hop oils by looking at the ‘ dry hopping ’ end of the brewing process , when a handful of whole or pellet hops are added to casks of beer . |
| 26 | But Dublin was long ago and far away ; the city she had known had changed irrevocably on that Easter Monday three years ago when a handful of men , including her husband Dermot , had walked out to do battle with the might of the British Empire . |
| 27 | Consequently , when a handful of practitioners came together in 1979 , it did so with a single guiding principle : ‘ the real measure of development is the ability of a people to build its own comprehensive and complimentary and independent infrastructure that is capable of dealing with its own problems , needs and aspirations . ’ |
| 28 | The novice chase received an entry of 12 and it looks as though a handful of runners will go to post . |
| 29 | The bump readers , who once moved among the great and the good , are almost gone ; though a handful of practitioners are still living , phrenology is officially dead . |