handful

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South Dakota is one of a handful of states, including Nevada, Wyoming and Alaska, that have no income tax and allow people who set up trusts to also be a beneficiary of them.

From The Wall Street Journal

For a handful of evenings in February, skywatchers were treated to a rare celestial display as seven planets appeared in the evening sky at the same time.

From BBC

“What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s a staggering industrial-scale fraud,” Assistant U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

A "handful" showed up on a planned walk and, over the past nearly two years, has developed into a community "built around supporting each other".

From BBC

But Edinburgh is one of only a handful of centres around the world where it is collected, with permission, for dementia research.

From BBC