Sentence examples for a handful left from inspiring English sources

"a handful left" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means there are only a few remaining. You can use it when talking about a small number of things or people that are still available or present. Example: After the big sale, there were only a handful of clothes left in the store.

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"Now, there's just a handful left".

There are only a handful left.

Now Greenfield's is one of only a handful left.

A marshal told him there were only a handful left, but there were several hundred potential buyers ahead of Patel.

A handful left early, presumably to attend to other business, but the rest — all of them wearing gray T-shirts that read "Stand" — joined Fisher and Hunter for the news conference.

On the Thursday, we still had about a quarter of the audience walk out, but on the Friday the audience was bolshie, they joined in and barely a handful left.

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Ordinarily, only a handful leave with each election cycle.

Each year some jobs bank workers reach retirement, some die, and a tiny handful leave voluntarily, without any lump sum.

Only a handful were left by the time an aide shepherded him back to the dressing room.

Despite its proud heritage, activists say there are only a handful cinemas left across the country now.

Tickets to that event are long gone, but a handful are left for the all day conference we hold prior to the party, the Social Currency CrunchUp.

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