Sentence examples for handful of practices from inspiring English sources

Sparano noticed it after only a handful of practices.

Reese, 24, was elevated to the second team in the camp's first week when Jordan missed a handful of practices.

JAGUARS RELEASE COUCH The Jacksonville Jaguars released Tim Couch, a former No. 1 overall pick, after a handful of practices and one preseason game.

He has worked with the first team only briefly in the preseason and in a handful of practices in recent weeks.

Harvin has missed all but a handful of practices since training camp began three weeks ago, plagued by the unpredictable, debilitating migraine episodes that can leave him unable to function, let alone put on a helmet and pads and run around the field.

But there is a natural adjustment period when trying to get a feel for a new set of teammates, and it was always going to take more than a handful of practices and one half of a meaningless preseason game to work all of the kinks out.

Defensive end Shaun Ellis was one player they settled on, an unlikely endorsement considering that Mawae had been on the opposite side of Ellis in a handful of practice scuffles over the last three years.

There is a kind of Inner Movement, consisting of a few hundred funders, senior organization leaders, lawyers, and prominent media personalities (but only a handful of practicing politicians), and an Outer Movement, consisting of a few thousand staff people, grunt workers, and lower-level operatives of one kind or another.

Of the others in Renault's pool, Romain Grosjean contested seven grands prix for the team in 2009 as a replacement for Nelson Piquet Jr but failed to impress, Fairuz Fauzy drove in a handful of practice sessions for Lotus last season, and neither Jan Charouz nor Ho-Pin Tung has more than a few testing miles to their names and they are way short of being ready.

The modern death penalty is not just concentrating in a handful of practicing states; it is disappearing in all but a few capitally active localities.

The fact that Worcestershire have been able to prepare properly, despite all the handicaps put in their way, has been demonstrated in the form they have shown in the handful of practice games they have managed to get in.