Handful in example sentence

It's interesting that the ants are using an algorithm that's so similar to the one that we recently invented, but this is only one of a handful of ant algorithms that we know about, and ants have had 130 million years to evolve a lot of good ones, and I think it's very likely that some of the other 12,000 species are going to have interesting algorithms for data networks that we haven't even thought of yet.

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With every handful of the powder they throw into the air, their white saris slowly start to suffuse with color.

There are fewer than a handful of palu left on this island.

Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a handful [of] men and women of conviction and courage.

But the recent developments in software-defined radio, rapid fabrication and the maker movement, make it so that it's possible for a team of teenagers working in my lab over the course of a handful of months to build a prototype radar.

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