Sentence examples for handful of bits from inspiring English sources

It was a welcome gesture, but was one of a handful of bits that made this show feel overlong.

If you live in Flanders you can only vote for politicians from the Flemish-speaking parties (there are a handful of bits of Flanders near to bilingual Brussels where this is not the case, but they are the exception).

While many researchers are looking for ways to make molecular-size electronics, most are still building circuits containing only a handful of bits, compared with the 160,000 in the new chip.

However, if we encoded small coefficients with just a handful of bits, chances are that those coefficients would end up being almost zero, hence quantizing too heavily the DCT results.

Scientists have made "toy" quantum computers with just a handful of bits (compared to the billions in your smart phone), and some companies are even starting to offer primitive versions for sale – to the scepticism of some experts.

In addition, with some machines producing enormous amounts of data and other sensors sending a handful of bits per day or week, IT leaders will need to balance digital business requirements with digital security realities.

His CV featured a handful of bit parts as First or Second Thug (including Woody Allen's Bananas) and the odd speaking role (The Lords of Flatbush).

Carrie Fisher popped up in a handful of bit parts throughout the '90s, but none more memorable than the therapist for a group for troubled fathers and sons.

Using forward error correction a receiver can correct a handful of bit errors in the resulting message but too much noise will lead to incomprehensible output and hence a breakdown of the transmission.

A handful of threepenny bits found in an old box given to his father by a magician uncle who disappeared shortly after the family's metal works business was destroyed by a wartime bomb, sets Stuart off on an adventure involving magical old slot machines, mysterious mechanical games and peculiar photographs.

By taking apart her old floppy drive and then booting the IIgs using a number of modern and older tools she was able to resurrect, as she puts it, a "handful of magnetic bits survived 30 years in my mom's basement, ready to come back and remind me how much I liked this game".