Downes is more of a choosy, patient storyteller, and if one of his distinctive original themes only requires a handful of notes and a lot of spaces, he leaves it like that.
Although the original plan would have required a handful of major banks and the taxpayers to shoulder the burden of Sogo's debts, it seems clear that allowing the retailer to fail under court supervision will spread the pain to scores of smaller financial institutions and trade creditors.
Although it might sound complicated, the popsicles were simple to prepare and only required a handful of ingredients: fresh berries, Greek yogurt, natural peanut butter, a pinch of sea salt, and (of course) honey.
Mr. Abrams would not say how much the new Web sites would cost to create, but he said they would require only a handful of new hires.
Cheaper to make, such products require just a handful of workers at a single plant to produce 15,000 metric tons of nonwovens a year.
(California is one of just a handful states that require a two-thirds vote to pass a budget).
All but a handful of states require a diploma from an A.B.A.-accredited school in order to sit for the bar and practice.
For instance, detecting episodic selection at a handful of residues may require a particularly large number of sufficiently diverged sequences.
My present favorite use doesn't even require a recipe: Sprinkle a few handfuls of baby arugula with sea salt and coarse-ground pepper, shave an ounce or two of Parmigiano-Reggiano onto it, then sprinkle it with equal amounts verjuice and extra virgin olive oil, just enough to coat the leaves.
Three large weaving rooms were consolidated into one room filled with more than 100 computerized looms requiring only a handful of technicians at any time.
