English-Finnish translations for handful

• kourallinen
  Kourallinen Hodorkovskin kaltaisia ihmisiä hyötyi suunnattomasti. A handful of men, such as Khodorkovsky, benefited enormously.
  Tällä hetkellä Euroopan parlamentissa on vain kourallinen jäseniä, jotka edustavat näitä ryhmiä. Today we are only a handful of MEPs who represent these groups.
  Kuukauden kuluttua tarkkailijoita oli vain kourallinen. After a month, however, there was still only a handful of observers.

Definition of handful

• The amount that a hand will grasp or contain
• A hand's breadth; four inches
• A small number, usually approximately five
• A group or number of things; a bunch
• Something which can only be managed with difficulty

Examples

• I put two or three corns in my mouth, liked it, stole a handful, went into my chamber, chewed it, and for two months after never failed taking toll of every pennyworth of oatmeal that came into the house. - Joseph Addison, The Spectator, Vol. VI
• Those twins are a real handful to look after

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• hand
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