He faced a big (though not quite full) crowd, armed with only a pretty good voice and a handful of rather thin, slow jams.
But few people had more than a handful of tickeys, the thin gray threepence coins that bought two cigarettes.
The accidents focused intense scrutiny on the Buildings Department, in particular its Cranes and Derricks Division, where a handful of inspectors were stretched thin, responsible for overseeing the licensing of thousands of cranes and more than 1,000 operators.
They complained that the generator for the ice rink had malfunctioned, turning it into a pool of water, the "tunnel of light" was actually a few fairy lights dangling from trees covered in artificial snow, the nativity was an amateurish billboard, the log cabins were green sheds, and the animal attraction was a handful of reindeer and several "thin-looking huskies chained up in a pen".
Prior to the find, Mitchell and Kenyon were known only to a handful of film specialists for a thin corpus of silent dramas and some undistinguished Boer war re-enactments that had been shot entirely in Lancashire.
A half-dozen works in a strictly no-frills installation feels a mite thin, but a handful of Velazquezes packs more of a punch than a museumful of work by nearly any of his contemporaries.
By the time he recanted, it was too late, as all his summer festival bookings had disappeared into thin air like a handful of glitter at a gay bar.
James Blake, the beneficiary of much buzz this year, played an immersive, deep-throb set on Friday; the crowd thinned out noticeably after a handful of songs).
A small gratis antipasto plate — wedges of cheese drizzled with honey, thin slices of salami and a handful of jumbo olives — also delighted.
KHANBOGD, Mongolia — In the dry expanses of southern Mongolia, a handful of large blue buildings are clustered together, ringed only by a thin metal fence.
