Mr. Farley and others attributed the broad shift in the perception of danger to a handful of factors, including increased focus on the problem by the media and by federal regulators, and the explosion of text messaging.
We also identified a handful of genes that increased in expression during rudiment development (e.g., soxC, distal-less, hnf6, and tail-less) and others that peaked in expression after metamorphosis (e.g., mbx, orthopedia, and islet).
With the House due to embark on a two-week recess, that left just a handful of days to increase the debt limit or risk default.
The phone calls started in mid-December – just a handful at first, but increasing so rapidly that soon a phone line had to be manned permanently, even on Christmas Day ("in case we had someone whose whole life was falling apart, and it just happened to be Christmas Day").
At an off-site retreat, the market's owners, Michael Volpatt, Kate Larkin and Crista Luedtke, gathered the few employees they kept aboard and brainstormed a handful of ways to increase off-season sales and foster good relations with the year-round population of some 6,500 residents.
The so-called reforms advocated by Democrats and a handful of Republicans would increase the already formidable protections and advantages enjoyed by incumbents, making it more difficult for outsiders to effectively challenge them.
Given the rate at which non-communicable diseases like Alzheimer's, diabetes, hypertension, and a handful of others are increasing in prevalence, this discussion is far more important than the dog-and-pony show over Obamacare.
With excess capital on hand, the bank has had more than a handful of stock repurchases and increased its quarterly cash dividend to shareholders.
We are nearing the end of February and only a handful of providers have announced increased rates".
In the last year, the number of political prisoners in the country has increased from a handful to scores.
Ms. Dotan said she knows a handful of sellers who have increased their asking price after noticing what was happening in the market.
