The phrase "a handful of settlements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small number of settlements, often implying that they are not many but still significant.
Example: "The region is home to a handful of settlements that have maintained their traditional way of life despite modernization."
Alternatives: "a few settlements" or "several settlements".
The archdiocese has reached a handful of settlements in other cases since then, but the one announced yesterday was by far the biggest, Finaldi added.
Mr. Netanyahu argued for essentially stopping with the first stage, evacuating only a handful of settlements in total, people familiar with his thinking said.
He got them all by promising to trade something Israelis overwhelmingly do not want any more: the Gaza settlements and a handful of settlements in the West Bank.
A settlement in a case involving the American International Group is scheduled for approval this year, as are a handful of settlements that could each be over $100 million.
Snapping out into the Adriatic like a jaunty little lobster with opened pincers, it's just 22 km long by 11 km wide and has only a handful of settlements.
On October 26th, Israel's parliament, the Knesset, endorsed the prime minister's plan to withdraw all the Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip and from a handful of settlements in the northern West Bank.
This number declined after a handful of major settlements.
In Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts, Reece visits the remains of a handful of utopian settlements and towns, mining their histories to reflect on the present.
Among the many hundreds of farming and fishing villages that proliferated on the coast from the sixth to tenth centuries, a handful of larger settlements emerged.
But there was a tiny handful of settlements where all those who served returned home.
Apart from a handful of tiny outpost settlements, mining centres, and Aboriginal townships, there are no towns.
