The phrase "a handful of exceptional" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small number of outstanding or remarkable individuals or items in a particular context.
Example: "In the competition, there were a handful of exceptional participants who truly stood out from the rest."
Alternatives: "a few outstanding" or "a small number of remarkable".
An average focused company in the study did even better, but this result was distorted by a handful of exceptional performers.
The Irving Innovation Fellowship has grown since its inception, and now empowers a handful of exceptional GSD students each year to extend their Harvard research and pedagogy beyond Commencement Day.
LONDON — Remember London, that theatrical capital where you went to feast on the classics, leaving maybe a handful of exceptional new plays a year to poke their way above a parapet defined by Shakespeare, Shaw, Ibsen and heaven knows what other canonical heavyweights one might care to name?
They'd taken 29 shots but there was no way past Diego Alves, who made a handful of exceptional saves, even if the best of them – a dive to his left, sending the ball back up off the post and the bar, a touch of Gordon Banks about it – came after the referee had blown his whistle for an infringement, though it was unbeknownst to him.
This is just one of a handful of exceptional luxury bargains that exist across the seven continents.
Snapshots of ancient behavior revealed by a handful of exceptional fossils have also provided support to the hypothesis that birds evolved from maniraptoran dinosaurs.
Goya's prints are an exception, for alongside a handful of his exceptional portrait paintings from the 1780s and 1790s they represent the pinnacle of his technical and creative achievement as an artist.
Last spring StarMine identified a handful of individuals with exceptional records for forecast accuracy.
Across Asia, only a handful of companies have exceptional corporate governance practices.
Inside you'll encounter plenty of period 1970s furniture, and a handful of rooms with exceptional views of the Dnipro river (vul Ivana Mazepy 11b; from £90).
Every year, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program recognizes a handful of professors who are exceptional undergraduate teachers, educational innovators, and mentors.
