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The phrase "a handful of techniques" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of methods or strategies that can be applied in a particular context.
Example: "In this workshop, we will explore a handful of techniques to improve your writing skills."
Alternatives: "a few methods" or "several approaches".
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The bill's supporters countered that it would have banned only a handful of techniques whose effectiveness was in dispute in any case.
As a result, I've developed a handful of techniques that take me from retching to flushing without too much discomfort.
Fortunately, there are a handful of techniques to combat the aftertaste of toothpaste.
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These are only a handful of attack techniques faced by mobile gaming apps, and the full list is not only much longer, but also constantly changing to evade existing detection approaches.
A handful of experimental techniques have been developed for genome-wide mapping of nucleosomes.
Motivation: Progress in protein biology depends on the reliability of results from a handful of computational techniques, structural alignments being one.
The high polymorphism of DRB1 (762 alleles), DQA1 (35 alleles) and DQB1 (107 alleles) (EMBL-EBI 2010), and the complex interactions of genes in the region further complicate the problem.> There are a handful of statistical techniques for studying the association of markers conditional on certain primary factors (Thomson et al. 2008), to account for any effects due to LD with those factors.
There are really only a few main ideas, plus a handful of clever techniques to handle a few tricky situations that come up.
He utilized a handful of traditional banjo techniques: he sometimes played in a down-picked, claw-hammer style (also known, in Appalachia, as "frailing"), sometimes in a thumb-led style.
Indeed, a Department of Education-sponsored practice guide for educators lists prequestions as one of a handful of evidence-based techniques, judged by a panel of experts on learning, that are concrete and highly applicable to education (Pashler et al., 2007).
There are a handful of different cooking techniques used in Chinese cuisine that involve some form of boiling or simmering liquid.
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