The phrase "a handful of exchanges" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small number of exchanges, whether they are conversations, transactions, or interactions.
Example: "After reviewing the data, I found that there were only a handful of exchanges between the two parties during the negotiation process."
Alternatives: "a few exchanges" or "a small number of exchanges".
SecondMarket and SharesPost are two of a handful of exchanges that have facilitated trades in Facebook and other private company shares.
First, many approached 2014 as a test year for the Affordable Care Act and participated in only a handful of exchanges to test the waters.
Instead, it is being driven by a fear of being left behind and a belief that exchanges, parochial for too long, need to catch up with the rest of the globalising financial industry.Mr Thain thinks the future belongs to a handful of exchanges offering a basket of products—equities, bonds, exchange-traded funds, futures, options and more across several time zones.
I didn't know Swartz nearly well enough even to form an opinion about what drove him to do this; I had a handful of exchanges with him online in which we said nice things about each other's work and I truly admired him.
In addition, although the hundreds of stock markets around the world have consolidated into one or at most a handful of exchanges in each country, cross-border regulation makes it difficult for international takeovers to take place, and governments do not seem to be in any hurry to change the rules.
Q: The email exchange between Ethan and Andrew traversed perhaps a dozen different ISPs and a handful of exchange points.
Health First Health Plans in Florida, one of nine insurers selling individual plans in the state through Healthcare.gov, has sold only a handful of exchange-based plans through the government marketplace.
A handful of stock exchanges, such as America's Arizona Stock Exchange and Britain's Tradepoint, allow fund managers the choice of trading on them directly.Margins have also come under pressure because wave after wave of commercial banks have tried to muscle into investment banking.
And there are a handful of spontaneous exchanges in ordinary language.
The Pentagon has had only a handful of military exchanges this year, including a visit to China by the commander of American forces in the Pacific, Adm. Dennis C. Blair, visits by students from the Air War College and the National Defense University, and a port call by the Blue Ridge, the command ship of the Navy's Seventh Fleet.
