Example sentences of "[subord] a handful of " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | There are no articles on video technology , although a handful of book reviews perhaps indicate a determination to cover it in future . |
3 | As yet there is no formal stock exchange , although a handful of securities are traded on the over-the-counter market . |
4 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
11 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate nowhere else to go . |
12 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate black nation-state . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He deduced that the nomadic Hebrews had their origins there and had brought no more than a handful of the place names with them when they eventually settled in Palestine . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | In the course of his farming life , Quentin Seddon kept no more than a handful of pigs . |
18 | Little more than a handful of people have died there in 22 years of the ‘ troubles ’ . |
19 | It left very few records and , even at its height , seems to have employed no more than a handful of men . |
20 | Indeed , were there more than a handful of black presenters on TV , he would n't be burdened with the impossible task of being all things to all black people . |
21 | During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays . |
22 | On top of this , inevitably but it seems rather unfairly , they have to deal with the problem that faces every teacher in a new school : the fact that they do not know its geography , its structure and its rules , both explicit and unwritten , nor do they have a chance to get to know the personalities and quirks of more than a handful of either pupils or teachers . |
23 | There are , in practice , no more than a handful of schools in the UK still teaching deaf children with PGSS . |
24 | We should remember that , like so many other British communities outside London , Wirral entered the 1980s with no more than a handful of long-term drug users known to local doctors . |
25 | DNA bending does not seem to be a general feature of eukaryotic transcription factors and has hitherto only been demonstrated for little more than a handful of such proteins ( see e.g. 44,69 and references therein ) . |
26 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Topics investigated will include : social origins of singers ; their training ; the castrati as a group ( far wider than a handful of notorious star singers ) and as a symptom of economic depression ; the shift from reliance on royal or aristocratic patrons to professional independence and cash earnings ; changing contractual arrangements ; and singing as a means to social advancement and to women 's independence . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |