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Recorded popular music also drives home the fact that songs don't have just ' a' hook - they have several, or a few handfuls, with different roles and degrees of importance.
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Handfuls of grass and earth were clutched in the hands.
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At that stage there are handfuls of people who still cannot meet their debt.
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We have learned to take all that with substantial handfuls of salt.
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Such people in any one strike can be numbered virtually in handfuls.
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I remember that we had several handfuls of appeals to deal with at a time.
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There are handfuls of cuttings to this effect to which everyone has access and which no doubt many of us have read.
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They had professional uniformed promotion girls distributing handfuls of tendentious propaganda.
We need many grains of sand—handfuls of sand—working inside the city centres without hampering restrictions in order to raise the level of economic activity.
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I think that there were only a few handfuls of exceptions in the referendum.
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Very often there are only a few handfuls of children, and they have to remain at that school for the rest of their educational days.
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Our northern people cannot live on handfuls of rice and walk about in loin cloths.
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The taximeters on the taxi-cabs were speeding up, the people on the omnibuses were tearing their hair out in handfuls, and everybody was getting the wind up.
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None is dominated by a famous-name composer, and few address music that will be familiar to any but a handful of scholars.
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A particularly distinct custom associated with "pepernoten" is throwing them in handfuls through the room so children can look for them.
A handful of cases and controls could not be contacted by telephone.
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A handful of moral, thinking, articulate freewomen are more than a multitude of the unmoral, inarticulate bond.
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Only a handful of parents in the entire sample had an accurate perception of the staffing.
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The early handful of studio sets have given way to a use of external action and most recently to moody ambient glossy city travelogue style.
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However, this factor did not play a role except in a handful of cases.
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Only a handful of cases are available for the period between 1740 and 1790 or the 1820s.
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With such a close split, the loss of only a handful votes is the difference between victory and defeat.
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The answer is that 3kolar belongs to the so-called ' mixed declension ', which includes a handful of nouns that exhibit stem suppletion.
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Moreover, the majority of loan-stems do not have a suffixed form in the dictionary, whereas only a handful of loan-stems fail to occur unsuffixed.
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A handful of early studies have provided a foundation on which many others have been based.
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From any location in the settlement, no more than a handful of huts were visible.
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While each of them claimed to have all of the villagers as members, only a handful had paid the required membership dues.
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By the end of the century, however, the construction becomes increasingly less common and is found only sporadically in a handful of texts.
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Our system is the first aimed at building semantic lexicons from scratch using only a representative text corpus and a handful of predefined seed words.
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Even just a handful of counterexamples should invalidate the program if it's to mean anything.
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Few trade unions existed and those which did had a handful of members and very little influence.
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Get you where you couldn't hit the wall with a handful of beans.
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The text and figures are of excellent quality and there is only a handful of typographic errors.
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I spotted only a handful of typographical errors and a few misleading page headers.
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Only 2 genera with some handfuls of species are placed here nowadays, making further subdivision of the family unnecessary.
Based on our current experience, however, we expect that we will need only a handful.
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Most design processes are carried out by teams, ranging from just a handful of designers to large organizations involving hundreds of domain experts.
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The first is that the results are based on data from only a handful of children.
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Their requirements were satisfied by a handful of skilled craftsmen who were household serfs or by imports of luxury items.
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Only a handful of those were listed here, some of them explicitly non-agricultural, and they actually declined in 1914.
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Detailed structural information guided the linker design, and only a handful of linked compounds needed to be synthesized to produce nanomolar ligands.
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Her mouth, slightly open, discloses her teeth, as the squire's son awkwardly, sullenly thrusts a handful of strawberries toward her.
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A handful of weatherboard houses had been erected here by 1851.
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The larger centres had extensive suburbs, while those in the market towns might consist of a handful of houses.
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Most studies of tropical forest dynamics, however, focus on single study sites, and in many cases, only a handful of species present at a site.
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By the standards of today's biomedical institution, his career publication record appears modest: 33 primary publications punctuated by a handful of review articles and chapters.
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A handful of biochemical studies have highlighted the effects of ballooning on population genetics, helping to improve our understanding of the settling distribution.
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Moreover, personality effects were identified in all but a handful of the models we estimated.
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A handful of other such admissions occurred down to 1848 in the archduchy.
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A handful of cases will suffice to illustrate the increased use of energy density among a spectrum of systems in successive phases of cosmic evolution.
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Again, there was no guano; no trees grew, and the handful of inhabitants told them that no birds visited.
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In a handful of cases this did happen and the effects were not always salutary.
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There is only a handful of evident typographical errors.
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Narrowing only need be performed with respect to a handful of predefined semantic primitives, rather than with respect to an arbitrary set of user-defined functors.
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In 1700 this was a small rural village of perhaps thirty houses, scattered over a handful of distinct, tiny hamlets.
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Vietnamese has only a small handful of such stem-sharing causatives, the rest being suppletive or periphrastic.
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However, a mere handful of them have been edited for general publication, and are greatly enjoyed by readers.
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Only a handful of bills include as many as 10 projects before 1820.
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Lifeboats 9 and 11 managed to reach the water safely with only a few handfuls of people, but both later picked up many swimmers.
Table 1 lists the handful of studies that provide detailed examinations of intrahousehold labor allocation to forest product collection including fuelwood.
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He (the thief) came and began stealing in handfuls.
Mankind ekes out a living in a few handfuls of settlements, connected by a network of massive armored trains.
Only a handful of scholars ventured into this field.
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A rather tired historiography has been revived lately by a handful of historians examining the state as a manifestation of social needs and cultural norms.
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Imperialist culture finds its vehicle of dissemination in a handful of dominant languages.
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In only a handful of cases are failures in transcription glaringly obvious.
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However, most authors who favour this concept of enhanced fitness in unaffected individuals typically rely on anecdotes regarding a handful of historical figures.
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They do not rely on a handful of obvious texts or preconceived models.
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Only a handful of the replies (n = 97, or 4%) indicated lack of interest.
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P errors were found in only a handful children and were not specific to any group.
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To date, only a handful of studies has been conducted on language development in such children and no study has focused specifically on syntactic comprehension.
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Enough money therefore remained for him to throw full handfuls out the window.
While generating some interest among linguists, it was never a dominant theory and, at its peak, was practiced by only a handful of phonologists.
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On the one hand, programmes in a handful of key countries were subject to public funding, and hence politically linked.
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Imagine if there were a handful of other reviews orchestrated to answer other compelling questions.
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On the other hand, the member-states adopted only a handful of fairly innocuous employment laws.
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They would instinctively take handfuls of ingredients and mix them without any measurements or any need of weighing scales.
Once, there was one new play opening every few weeks; now there's a handful a week.
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Thus, almost no private citizens pay accurate taxes, and only a handful of corporations.
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Unfortunately, these planners have generally been unable to solve problems involving more than a handful of actions.
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The federal government's support of agriculture kept the economies of the interior from collapsing, but brought prosperity to only a handful of the very wealthy.
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However, only a handful of combinators need know the internal representation of parsers-the remaining combinators can be built from these primitive combinators.
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Given that handfuls of debitage were placed directly into artifact bags in the field, all technologically diagnostic forms are well represented.
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His valets proceed to throw handfuls of gold to the crowd, which follows them outside.
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He seemingly withdraws handfuls of sand at the request of the audience and then blows the sand from his hand.
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With a slight smirk on his face, the twin downed handfuls of the popcorn without chewing, as the fancy shawl dancers were called to the floor.
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Only a handful of treaties commanding a majority have fallen short of the required two-thirds.
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Only a handful had a background in the humanities or social sciences.
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Earlier settlements were mere hamlets which consisted of a handful of houses.
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The design of large-scale urban developments, naturally a long organic process, is now a question of a handful of weeks.
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A handful of studies from a limited group of researchers have examined the home environment as a phenotype for genetic analysis.
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If this leads to organizing at least a handful of monitoring programmes, it has served its purpose.
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On the other hand, it is conceivable that a mere handful of salient deviations can be enough to judge someone's speech as different.
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Within these two themes, most experimenters have chosen a whole organism approach and only a handful a biochemical route (appendix 6).
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To a great extent, marriage was seen as the only option for women, apart from the handful of richer women who went into convents.
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As is stands, however, this book will be of limited interest to a handful of canon lawyers.
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Today, the entire genome of that first sequenced virus could be completed by a handful of people in a genome centre in an afternoon.
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