The phrase "a handful of drivers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small number of drivers, often implying that they are significant or noteworthy in some way.
Example: "In the recent study, a handful of drivers were identified as the main contributors to traffic congestion in the city."
Alternatives: "a small number of drivers" or "a few drivers".
"This is the first time, really, we've seen a handful of drivers miss time for injuries," Hamlin said.
He said a handful of drivers working London routes had been talking about the crisis and simply decided to act.
Only a handful of drivers wore the device in the Daytona 500 this year, including Kyle Petty, Adam Petty's father.
A handful of drivers own taxi medallions, worth $240,000 each, but a vast majority are drivers who lease medallions by the week or month.
A snowplough was sent to Bluebell Wood in Fulwood, which has only attracted "a handful" of drivers since it opened in May.
Jo Bertram, Uber's regional manager for the UK, said only a handful of drivers who use the app were involved in the case, rather than the company as a whole.
Similar findings supporting the notion of dominant subclones composed of only a handful of driver mutations were reported shortly thereafter by Nik-Zainal and colleagues [ 17].
Finally, Taxibeat says that the taxi market in many LatAm countries is broken, with high crime rates and poor quality of service on the one hand, and a "handful of good drivers trying to distinguish themselves from the pack on the other".
Although a handful of black drivers have competed in Nascar over the decades, only Wendell Scott, Willy T. Ribbs and Bill Lester have raced full-time in the sport.
The military and a handful of civilian drivers, including Oleg, took the upper layer of ground and moved it 10km away.
More than a handful of the drivers in that 1971 season would eventually be killed in racing accidents, and another, Graham Hill, would die in a crash of his private plane.
