They constitute But a handful of the number.
A handful of soldiers and some civilians wandered about aimlessly.
In traditional mainframe applications, thread usage is not a big concern as work is initiated by a handful of applications using a handful of threads.
That's a rather small carrot for more than a handful of conscientious souls.
Yup, he was a handful, and I reveled in his passionate pursuits.
I was MORTIFIED that they had a handful of my filthy drawings in their clutches.
On her sixth trip in 1979 they tied the knot before a handful of guests.
Professors juggle scores of students; at top American universities they nurture a handful.
Christopher Columbus brought a handful of cacao beans back to Spain — and and the Spanish looked at them, unimpressed.
If you throw a handful of straw into a river, some of it stays afloat even in a rapids.
Throw a good-size handful of cooked beans or peas to just about any soup or stew.
Air India is one of only a handful of large airlines without a big domestic feeder airline.
As it turns out, a handful of scientific studies show that chicken soup really could have medicinal value.
And they found a handful of indicators that reliably predict kick direction, such as the Angle of the kicker's hips and how he plants his supporting foot.
I wager that approach 1 is faster than approach 3 because the former approach simply accesses a handful of already-parsed XML data elements.
Within 15 minutes, he was at Utoya Island. He saw people in a handful of other private boats that had lined up along the shore.
Many city kids, even if they did peer through the orange smog above their heads, would probably see only a handful of stars.
Many countries have outlawed corporal punishment in the classroom (2), while only a handful have done the same for parental correction of the physical kind.
A big part of Apple's success is because of its focus on making just a handful of great products and curating an experience around them in its famously minimal retail stores.
She spent a week in seclusion before the big day, emerging from the Truman home only a handful of times, including once to partake in a small press conference.
A handful of recent studies have shown a link between bone health and a low-acid diet, while some reports suggest that the acidity of the Western diet increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
Second, "until now tablets had been found only in a handful of major palaces" -including the previous record holder, which was found among palace ruins in what was the city of Mycenae.
A handful of men in suits and ties and women in business attire were among dozens of people at the Episcopal church, which was hit by debris from the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11, 2001.
It owed its early success to the dogged efforts of a handful of Chinese feng shui experts. But from around 1990 onwards, numerous feng shui schools have sprung up in large American cities including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Boston and Houston. Their enrolments have risen by leaps and bounds.
