Example sentences of "no [adj] than a handful [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | In the course of his farming life , Quentin Seddon kept no more than a handful of pigs . |
3 | It left very few records and , even at its height , seems to have employed no more than a handful of men . |
4 | There are , in practice , no more than a handful of schools in the UK still teaching deaf children with PGSS . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |