Presumably, complete performances of the "Goldberg" and the Crumb were deemed too lengthy for the setting, so Ms. Dinnerstein played the aria and the first 13 variations of the Bach and a handful of the nine variations in the Crumb.
We no longer live in the pigtailed world of Cindy Brady where a handful of channels import variations on sugar and spice, with prompt repercussions for the latter.
LUY DE NARVÁEZ, a Spanish composer who straddled the 15th and 16th centuries, is best known today for a handful of fantasies and variations that guitarists play as representative of their instrument's earliest repertory.
Mr. de Mare played its forceful theme and a handful of its 36 variations, enough to convey a sense of the work's demands on both the fingers and the imagination, if not its heft and structural sweep.
A handful of Bach's 30 variations require this close-quarters virtuosity at blinding speeds, and they will forever be remembered as the ones Glenn Gould (and no one else) ate for breakfast.
But only a small handful of tracks have wet weather variations.
And there were some snacks, a whole lotta chip variations, a handful of popcorn and jerky brands, and SO many nuts.
Although the overwhelming majority of events that can transpire in baseball over a brief time period cannot be distinguished statistically from random variation, a handful of accomplishments are so rare that even a single game can contain impressive predictive power.
In contrast to the multitude of laboratory-induced mutations that change flowering behavior, genetic analysis has identified only a handful of loci responsible for flowering variation among natural accessions.
