Handful in example sentence

In this tiny town -- and really that's being charitable; hamlet is more appropriate -- there are but a handful of inhabitants and only three apparent businesses (saloon, store, and undertaker), no court or jail, no regular transportation services, no communications, no government offices of any kind, no mayor, and no law enforcement, yet a busily occupied lawyer?

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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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