Sentence examples for scant handful of from inspiring English sources

A scant handful of minor critiques have been reflected.

Media types who roamed the city's vast lakefront facility on Thursday and Friday press days found only a scant handful of new or redesigned vehicles.

As soon as the pruning is finished and all the pruned-off canes are disposed, each rosebush will need a scant handful of fertilizer.

Worse, islanders are not benefiting from the Fair Isle boom, partly because the scant handful of local knitters already have more orders than they can ever hope to meet.

There's not much of either – just a whole lot of honey-dipped handsomeness – in Unbroken; once tipped by many for best picture glory, Angelina Jolie's snoozerific Louis Zamperini biopic is effectively, with its scant handful of technical citations, the ghost at this year's Oscar feast.

We know the exultation that comes from being one in a scant handful of viewers present at the premiere of an overlooked masterpiece; but our joy at the occasional convergence of high art and mass media gives us momentary leave to float with the current a while and to rest our arms in anticipation of the next current we feel compelled to swim against.

Cheeseparing advances, marketplace invisibility, scant prospect of reaching more than a handful of readers -- more than enough reasons for a writer not to get up in the morning, or to peel off into magazine work or teaching.

That means deals with a handful of content owners and scant room for the little guys.

Only a handful of the artists were Jews, but that made scant difference to a regime that could detect Semitic contagion anywhere.

But City's spending on expensive talent from outside the club meant opportunities for young players were scant and after a couple of seasons in which he made only a handful of first-team appearances he signed for Barça.

Market  |  Initial offerings were scant in October, but November promises to be a little bit better, with a handful of I.P.O.'s expected to follow Groupon's, The Wall Street Journal reports.