Sentence examples for handful of trees from inspiring English sources

My question is, why is it only a handful of trees?

All that remains of our old community is one house, a Catholic church, and a handful of trees that we fought to protect.

Vastly inflated density and a few extra storeys on a tower can be politically justified as being in the public interest, if it means a handful of trees will be planted on the street.

One of the few long-term records has been kept entirely voluntarily by 90-year-old Jean Combes who has noted the precise dates when a handful of trees has come into leaf over the past half-century.

After passing on a handful of trees that met some but not all of our desired qualities, we all walked by one tree that was easy to ignore.

Someone had cut back a handful of trees at Sunset Triangle Plaza, a city-owned patch of green space that borders Sunset and Griffith Park boulevards.

I had stops at many lawn and garden centers as well as a handful of tree service operations.

With only a handful of tree health experts left in the UK, will the funding be forthcoming to make sure we have the necessary knowledge and expertise to recognise and deal with future outbreaks?

But the agency waited until the leaves were down to begin cutting more than 400 trees in Carteret and Woodbridge in Middlesex County, plus a handful of additional trees in Rahway and Linden in Union County.

(Their parents huddled in the meagre shade provided by a handful of immature trees).

Up there they had a handful of fig trees, some rosebushes and a verbena or two, and pink oleanders clustered round the waterbeds.