The phrase "a handful of comments" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small number of comments, often implying that the quantity is manageable or limited.
Example: "After reviewing the feedback, I received a handful of comments that I need to address before finalizing the report."
Alternatives: "a few comments" or "a small number of comments".
It is interesting to read that the Copyright Office only got a handful of comments to its July 15 notice.
Investors are left parsing a handful of comments in which he has expressed some doubts on the benefits and concern about the consequences of the Fed's policies.
He added: "We have received only a handful of comments [about the lecture], and the majority of those are supporting free speech".
But in a week which saw a record response to the latest volley in the God debate, and considerable comment on the excellent posts marking the anniversary of the Six-day War, despite more than 24 hours on the front page, the Dowden-Lawson face-off attracted only a handful of comments.
While only a handful of comments have popped up this week, they fall into two camps: Those who earnestly want to warn consumers that Singer is, in fact, a crook ("This guy is a criminal," reads a one-star review. "He was just arrested for running a scam to get your kid into a fancy college with bribes"). and those who want to have a little fun at the author's expense.
A handful of comments pointed out the very funny Onion spoof on the company where the U.S. government uses Cash4Gold to pay down the national debt.
At the meeting Thursday, which lasted more than three hours, speakers voiced concerns about a series of environmental issues, but there were only a handful of critical comments on Mr. Dudley's pay package.
"What is happening here is the establishment are singling out a handful of unpleasant comments made by Ukip people and yet the other parties do these things and say these things it would appear with impunity.
The difference between Sharknado 2, which aired on Wednesday night, and Lucy is that we can talk about Sharknado with our friends on Twitter (and to a lesser extent Facebook) – whereas with Lucy we are confined by that social contract that only allows us a handful of whispered comments before getting shushed by those around us in the dark.
After a handful of public comments that seemed to put him at odds with administration policy, Paul O'Neill found himself looped out of the planning for a major economic conference, Ron Suskind recounted in "The Price of Loyalty," his 2004 biography of President George W. Bush's first Treasury secretary.
Only a handful of spam comments made it to the site (false negatives).
