The phrase "a handful of patterns" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small number of specific patterns, often in contexts like analysis, design, or observation.
Example: "In our research, we identified a handful of patterns that consistently emerged across different datasets."
Alternatives: "a few patterns" or "several patterns".
It is no small accomplishment to have created an unmistakable brand identity out of a handful of patterns in yarn, as did Tai and Rosita Missoni, the founders of the knitwear label that bears their family name, and which is designed by their daughter Angela.
Things like the classic Tiffany bamboo silver, designed by the midcentury design god Van Day Truex in 1961 and kept in stock for years, were discontinued some years back, part of a purge that swept away all but a handful of patterns.
The CanAm Missing Project has documented hundreds of disappearances in the national parks of Canada and North America, and also identified a handful of patterns and profiles.
"Unfortunately, individuals found guilty of sloppy or fraudulent research conduct seem to fall into a handful of behavioral patterns," Dr. Fang said.
He offered a handful of whimsically patterned, buttonless jackets and full skirts a woman would want to wear to see her best childhood girlfriend.
By the late 1980s, there were a handful of hunting-specific camouflage patterns, found on a limited number of useful garments.
December 4 2015 December 5 5 2015 The evening, an amalgamation of two works created by the German contemporary-dance choreographer Waltz for museum spaces in 2009, begins with a handful of dancers moving in sinuous patterns to the accompaniment of a percussionist (playing a score by Xenakis), and builds into a musical maelstrom.
A handful of studies have assessed spatial patterns of cortical thickness in MDD.
Contrary to the traditional biology approach, where the expression patterns of a handful of genes are studied at a time, microarray experiments enable biologists to study the expression patterns of many genes simultaneously from gene expression profile data and decipher the underlying hidden biological mechanism from the observed gene expression changes.
The closing decades of an artist's life do not generally make the biographer's heart beat faster, but Claude Monet is one of a handful of painters who bucks the pattern of an irrelevant old age.
In addition to the crop top and skirt, the inaugural Together collection includes a turtleneck, a dress, a pair of form-fitting trousers ("We call it the pantaloni," Chehrazi says) and a turtleneck in the 86% rPET/16% Spandex blend and some silk twill pocket squares, in a handful of eye-popping plucked from nature patterns.
