Example sentences of "than a handful [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year .
2 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 .
3 There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate nowhere else to go .
4 There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate black nation-state .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 It left very few records and , even at its height , seems to have employed no more than a handful of men .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Little more than a handful of people have died there in 22 years of the ‘ troubles ’ .
15 But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people .
16 There are , in practice , no more than a handful of schools in the UK still teaching deaf children with PGSS .
17 In the course of his farming life , Quentin Seddon kept no more than a handful of pigs .
18 Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any .
19 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 .
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