Example sentences of "a handful of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , although some of the schemes were designed for staff right across further education , they were attracting only a handful of teachers of vocational subjects , while the remaining schemes did not take their needs into account at all . |
| 2 | Five years ago , he said , Ash could list only a handful of companies with smoking restrictions . |
| 3 | In this way a handful of companies in the North are edging towards having a monopoly over the world 's genetic pool . |
| 4 | There was a tapping noise at the shutters , as if someone had thrown a handful of pebbles against them . |
| 5 | Then a messenger brought more mail and criss-crossed the room leaving a pile for the features editor , some for reporters , and a handful of things for Rosie . |
| 6 | Compared with the extensive tracts of a century or so ago , there are few raised bogs left in England — a handful of sites in Shropshire and Cumbria , almost nothing in Lancashire , Cheshire and Staffordshire . |
| 7 | That 's a question which might be asked after last week 's thoroughly enjoyable Carrowdore 100 which however saw only a handful of riders on the line in each race except the classic . |
| 8 | Twenty eight years of age , Tommy , made just a handful of appearances for Sunderland before coming here to Shrewsbury Town and he 's made important contributions at both ends tonight , because his could be the goal that takes Shrewsbury past Blackburn and to a lucrative tie against Tottenham . |
| 9 | England full-back Charles and Scottish Under-21 international Wilson , who have made only a handful of appearances between them this season , play for the reserves against Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 10 | ’ She grabbed a handful of tissues from a box on the side . |
| 11 | Both varieties make lovely tea — just infuse a handful of leaves in boiling water . |
| 12 | It happens with only a handful of Members in their places and achieves little , if any , coverage by the media . |
| 13 | To be one of only a handful of boys among hundreds of girls at a feis ( a competition ) was the surest way of pulling girls I ever saw . |
| 14 | He could see a handful of snowdrops in the little back garden . |
| 15 | Twenty-year-old Peake not only scored the goal which put Pool on their way to a desperately needed win , he was also one of only a handful of players on either side who looked capable of coming to terms with the gale-force wind and bumpy pitch . |
| 16 | I have never shared the wild enthusiasm for anything ‘ single-bit ’ with which its arrival was greeted in some quarters ; indeed there are still only a handful of players of that ilk which I would contemplate as replacements for a good multi-bit machine , but this is one of them . |
| 17 | Only a handful of players from their original selection turned out , the management obviously having decided that they were not going to give even a hint of their championship formation . |
| 18 | There was a handful of claims for alleged failure to detect fraud on audit . |
| 19 | According to the Americans , a handful of dogfights during the first week produced a lopsided result : nearly a score of the most modern Iraqi French- and Soviet-built fighters shot down in the air for the loss , possibly , of a single American fighter . |
| 20 | Cranmer played no rugby after the war , and apart from a handful of matches during his two months in India he played no cricket during the hostilities . |
| 21 | I put a handful of matches on the floor . |
| 22 | Coventry was chosen by Lord Reith as one of a handful of cities to be used as a prototype of large-scale urban planning . |
| 23 | Banyon made an anguished sound and , after burrowing in his coat pocket , threw a handful of coins onto the table . |
| 24 | He got to his feet , leaving a handful of coins for the bill , then came round to her , bending to give her a swift , hard kiss on the mouth before striding off . |
| 25 | Whale ( 1977 , p. 80 ) has justified unregulated commercial control of the press by arguing that ‘ a newspaper controlled by a commercial group writes inhibitedly about a handful of concerns at most ; a paper owned by the state , the effective alternative , would be guarded in its outlook on whole areas of the national life ’ . |
| 26 | Apart from a cold-storage warehouse in Charterhouse Street in the City of London , his architectural output was limited to a handful of houses in London and the Manchester area , including 25 Cadogan Gardens , Chelsea , in partnership with George Hornblower , for the Australian artist Mortimer Menpes . |
| 27 | A handful of inscriptions from British sites and many more from other provinces refer to various provincial officials , usually soldiers seconded for duty to the governor 's staff . |
| 28 | She had taken a handful of downers with her whisky around 10 a.m. and had woken up in hospital . |
| 29 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 30 | After playing only a handful of games for Celtic , Docherty moved south to Preston North End , where he made his debut on Christmas Day 1949 , eventually displacing his mentor Bill Shankly and rising through the ranks to captain the Preston side . |