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Simple sentences
There are a handful of naughty boys in my neighborhood.
The boy gathered a handful of peanuts and put them in a small box.
The difficulties of the Japanese language prevent all but a handful of foreigners from approaching the literature in the original.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Tom grabbed a handful of popcorn out of the bag and then handed it to Mary.
Only a handful of people know the fact.
Only a handful of men want to take childcare leave.
That boy is a handful.
He scooped up sand by the handful.
Tom ate a handful of raisins.
Tom ate a handful of the nuts from the bowl on the bar.
Tom reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of coins.
Tom bent down and picked up a handful of sand.
Movie subtitles
Take this handful of dirt.
There's only a handful of houses.
Yeah I know, she's a handful.
A handful of red gold for a cooling draught of white wine!
Would you like me to offer you a handful of them?
A handful of men like ourselves.
A handful of dirt over his body.
For a handful of worldliness?
That boy's harder to hold than a handful of bumblebees.
Sheep, indeed. Are we sheep to be herded and sheared by a handful of owners?
Just a small handful right in their face.
A handful of Americans.
You must change him and everything that belongs to him. including his coat and his traveling bag, which I have locked up in this room. into a handful of ashes.
You'll find him a handful by himself.
There's only three officers and a handful of men there.
Are we sheep to be herded and sheared by a handful of owners?
Nothing, child, except the gentleman what gets Miss Stanley, gets a handful.
Only a handful of European men have ever entered this wild valley and stood in front of this mountain.
On behalf of the entertainment industry, I would like to throw a handful of credit where credit is due.
Nothing left of him except a handful of ashes and a few gold teeth.
A handful of peasants is a cheap price. It's breaking your heart because you know a couple.
Just a handful of books in all our land.
In all our history, only a handful of women have been permitted to write their names beside the men.
People know only a handful can make the flight.
I will ask for no more than an occasional handful of peanuts.
Just reach out in front of you and grab a handful of water.
And he hands it back like a handful of feathers.
Give her a convertible or a handful of diamonds.
Last week, he made a blind man see. and took in payment a handful of rice.
At each spot with the passing arrows. they plan a fort just to be held by a handful of soldiers.
Except that the fellow here has satisfied his desire to be over there everybody's had fun running after something everybody's grabbed a handful of stuff they wanted because everybody else wanted them.
They kill my father or your brother. They give you a handful of money, and that's that. - That's right!
The Romans found out what a handful could do. if it's the right handful.
There's only a handful left.
You can't unload it like a handful of beans. That's why we have a chance to get it back.
News and current affairs
By contrast, other donors give larger sums, usually to only a handful of charities chosen on the basis of some knowledge about what the charity is doing.
Success depends not on what one or even a handful of countries can do alone, but on what all of us are able to achieve by moving forward together against this common threat.
Student groups have formed on many campuses, and a handful of colleges and universities have already pledged to end their investment in fossil fuels.
They forget that capitalism in Europe had already once given way - often violently - to statism and corporatism in the 1930's, to be revived in only a handful of countries in the 1980's.
PRINCETON - It may, in the end, turn out to be fortunate that a handful of people in developed countries - four in the United States and one in Spain - have contracted Ebola.
Their reasoning was sound: The Israelis did not control even their own side of the canal, so they could not possibly reinforce the first wave of a few hundred men with a handful of tanks.
In Italy, a curious rule that provides for the grouping which has a handful of votes more than the other to get a bonus of several dozen seats in the lower house.
Of the 50 best universities in the world, according to the Shanghai list and the Times Higher Education Supplement list, some 30 are American, six or seven are British, and only a handful are to be found in continental Europe.
In the late 1930s, when Jews in Germany and Austria were in mortal danger, few countries, including the wealthy United States, were prepared to take in more than a handful of refugees.
It would be enough for a handful of CEOs and prime ministers to say that they are prepared to consider using such a Facility on a case-by case basis.
The electronic media were routinely critical of the authorities, but were owned by a handful of people and depended on their owners' taste, interests, and fate.
I do not know how many Islamic leaders preach murder and mayhem in mosques and help recruit suicide bombers from among their congregants; but even if it is only a handful, they pose a question that must be answered.
If I need a hundred or so calories in a hurry, I prefer a banana, a handful of nuts, or, for that matter, a delicious candy bar.
The setting is a downtown restaurant to which the editor Tina Brown has invited Hillary Clinton and a handful of notables, including Caroline Kennedy, filmmaker Michael Moore, and former Senator George McGovern.
India, China, and a handful of other Asian countries are also witnessing remarkable growth in local alternative energy companies and the use of renewable energy.
With only a handful of exceptions, the current generation of political leaders shows little interest in disarmament, and not much more in non-proliferation.
Moreover, the handful of free-trade agreements signed with individual countries, or groups of countries, are lopsided and overwhelmingly favor US interests.
The Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence has pointed out that after WWII, only a handful of countries were able to grow to a fully-industrialized level of development.
Scarcity of parchment required all decision-making to be concentrated in a court consisting of a handful of people.
For example, one economist working on the project argued that focusing on a handful of key diseases creates islands of excellence in a sea of dysfunction.
China has fallen out of love with us; my people know too much about the wider world; and everyone knows that to use our handful of nuclear weapons would be suicidal.
As a result, Prodi has won a large margin in the lower house, but he has only a handful of extra votes in the Senate.
Many key figures are from a handful of villages in just one valley, the Panjshir.
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