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handful

adjective as in a small quantity

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Today only a handful of companies own and operate nearly 90% of what you see, read or hear while the government controls the companies that supply the news.

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In “Sacrament,” Straight turns her singular focus to a handful of nurses camping in a wagon train of funky, sweltering trailers near the hospital they call Our Lady.

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Instead she holds forth on her cosmopolitan travels and philosophy of life, forming a close bond with a handful of impressionable students.

The global impact of the failure revealed dangerous over-reliance on a handful of wealthy corporations.

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Ross, who lost that year to Liza Minnelli in “Cabaret,” would go on to star in just a handful of other films.

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