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Meanings of mere handful in English
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Usage of mere handful in English
1
Disease and disorder were rife, and by 1791 a mere handful survived.
2
Better wear none at all than just a mere handful, he says.
3
Again they came, a mere handful, and again they were driven back.
4
In the World War a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict.
5
The company suffered severely and in the last battle were a mere handful.
6
A mere handful of provincially based festivals have achieved national prominence.
7
The babe begins a mere handful of germs; a bough of unblossomed buds.
8
A mere handful at the noisy centre of things who make the quarrel.
9
Already the booths were fast disappearing and a mere handful of peasants remained.
10
They made our small army within the village look like a mere handful.
11
The patriot army was a mere handful of ragged, disheartened fugitives.
12
There weren't many of them, a mere handful by the sound of it.
13
They were thinned by battle and sickness to a mere handful.
14
Alone and on foot, you could carry away a mere handful.
15
It was, of course, secret, and composed of a mere handful.
16
They were English-buta mere handful of them-notmore than a single squad.
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Mere handful through the time
Mere handful across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common