He was applauded after he conducted his own show of hands for his adjournment motion and only a handful of investors failed to raise their hands in support.
Some butter and a handful of capers failed to rehydrate rainbow trout grilled to the texture of cotton wool.
A handful of guests failed to turn up, and those who did peeled off coats, hats and boots and shared stories about braving the first blizzard of 2003.
The exchange said it was investigating whether a handful of specialists failed to match orders from small investors directly, making a profit instead by buying from one and selling to another.
"Despite its best efforts … the Islamic State controls little territory in south Asia, [has] conducted only a handful of attacks, failed to secure the support of most locals, and struggled with poor leadership," wrote Seth Jones, a former adviser to US forces in Afghanistan, this month.
Everybody but a handful of people fail the first time, and it's likely that they'll fail the next time.
And despite the widely recognised importance of studies of hybrid embryos in the field of developmental biology, there has been surprisingly little attention paid in the context of reproductive isolation, with only a handful of reports of failed embryogenesis in hybrid animals.
All but a handful of economists fail to comprehend the etiology and countervailing forces that are unleashed.
