Handful in a sentence as a noun

It looks like as we were performing server upgrades last week a handful of jobs didn't run as normal.

We tried signing up for a handful of other big name companies, and still, we couldn't verify more than 15-20% of clicks.

$75,000 - $1,000,000, sold to a handful of rich big companies using a team of slick salespeople that do six months of intense PowerPoint just to get one goddamn sale.

All it takes is a handful of breakout hits -- shows, movies, or what have you -- that occur outside of the established Hollywood distribution system.

There is no way you could do better, and it is unlikely that if you are building anything that needs more than a handful of servers you could build anything more reliable.

Typically they'll hire a handful of "innovation" people, most of them ex-McKinsey consultants, but a lot of them tech people, and put them in a sort of internal consulting group.

Most any page on most websites can be generated with just a small handful of queries if you know how to write them to properly filter, summarize and restructure the data.

A handful of search engines?The point at which google is doing us a favor by not being evil, instead of merely abiding by the law, is the point at which our expectations should be updated.

I wasted a handful of weeks digging around in debug builds looking at bailout log entries and trying to decipher their IR using the broken log viewer they recommend, and the net result was that my code ended up faster for a few weeks until V8 changed again.

Handful definitions

noun

a small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were received"

See also: smattering

noun

the quantity that can be held in the hand

See also: fistful