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handful and fragments
Only a handful of specimens were collected and the last record dates from 1901, although skull fragments were found in an owl pellet in 1977.
However a handful of Necrarchs fled and survived the pursuit of the armies of the kings of Numas and Zandri, taking with them books and scrolls and other fragments of the dark lore that Nagash created.
He wrote several specialized works on aspects of language and grammar, from which only a handful of fragments now survive.
He apparently wrote a commentary on the Books of Chronicles, which is only known from a handful of fragments.

handful and defence
From a position in the early 1970s where British yards could still build the largest types of sophisticated merchant ships, British shipbuilders today have been reduced to a handful specialising in defence contracts and repair work.
The defence of the rest of the border up to Petsamo by the Arctic Ocean was given to the North Finland Group which consisted of a handful of independent battalions.
Although a mere 5 ' 5 ", he was a handful for any defence as he possessed awesome strike power.
At Deniki, the men joined up with Owen and the rest of ' B ' Company and on the morning of 27 July, Owen — with the remnants of the Militia company and a handful of troops of the PIB, who had had little food or rest for the previous three days and knowing he would be facing some 500 Japanese marines — decided to attempt a defence of the Kokoda airstrip and hope that reinforcements would arrive in time to support him.

handful and treatise
While his authorship and the very existence of this treatise have recently come into question, a handful of his musical works do survive and show the innovations in musical notation, particularly mensural and rhythmic, with which he was credited within a century of their inception.
While completing his treatise, Rook encounters Twig, an old sky pirate who, along with Rook and a handful of Banderbears, attempts to free his old friend Cowlquape from the clutches of the Guardians of Night with the last Sky Ship in all the Edge.

handful and have
It is extremely doubtful that the handful of Albanians who call themselves Communists could have done this without the direct approval of their Chinese friends.
As widespread inefficiencies in numbering ( such as the assignment of entire blocks of 10000 numbers to every competing carrier in every small village to support local number portability schemes ) have created shortages of available numbers, these prefixes are often " reclaimed " and issued as standard exchanges, moving the handful of numbers in them to one standard test exchange ( usually 958 ).
Recently, tests have been developed to detect mutation for a handful of more complex conditions such as breast, ovarian, and colon cancers.
In a handful of documented cases, individuals attempting breatharian fasting have died, and among the claims investigated by the Indian Rationalist Association, all were found to be fraudulent.
Some relatively lightweight exoplanets, only a few times more massive than Earth ( now known by the term Super-Earth ), are known as well ; statistical studies now indicate that they actually outnumber giant planets while recent discoveries have included Earth-sized and smaller planets and a handful that appear to exhibit other Earth-like properties.
A handful of new servers are set up every year by hobbyists – over 50 have been set up and added to Floodgap's list since 1999.
Humans are the only primate species that have undergone significant hair loss and of the approximately 5000 extant species of mammal, only a handful are effectively hairless.
There have been a handful of IBM cases — about 15 or so — that have shown clear evidence of a virus called HTLV-1.
Fossils very similar to V. komodoensis have been found in Australia dating to greater than 3. 8 million years ago, and its body size remained stable on Flores, one of the handful of Indonesian islands where it is currently found, over the last 900, 000 years, " a time marked by major faunal turnovers, extinction of the island's megafauna, and the arrival of early hominids by 880 ka.
TfL plans that by 2020 there should be a network of over 100 fully accessible stations, consisting of those recently built or rebuilt, and a handful of suburban stations that happen to have level access, along with selected ' key stations ', which will be rebuilt.
Despite the recent awareness and admiration of Leonardo as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, either authenticated or attributed to him that have been regarded as among the masterpieces.
Given that the cost of replacing an executive can run over 100 % of his or her annual salary, any investment of time and energy in re-recruitment will likely pay for itself many times over if it helps a business retain just a handful of key players that would have otherwise left.
While many former motel chains have become hotel chains and some have entirely left the low-end of the market, a handful of national franchise brands ( Econo Lodge, Thriftlodge, Knights Inn ) remain available to owners of existing motels with the original drive-up-to-room motor court architecture.
If you have a number to harden, set water and alum over the fire ; and while it is boiling put in a handful of quills, the barrels only, for a minute, and then lay them by.
Since the introduction of nalidixic acid in 1962, more than 10, 000 analogs have been synthesized, but only a handful have found their way into clinical practice.
Rosemary essential oil may have epileptogenic properties, as a handful of case reports over the past century have linked its use with seizures in otherwise healthy adults or children.
With the growing availability of satellite television channels or terrestrial digital subchannels, combined with a growing body of available post-syndication programming, a handful of specialty channels have been built solely or primarily to run former network programming which otherwise would no longer be in syndication.
In a current edition of Matheson's The Shrinking Man, King is quoted: " A horror story if there ever was one ... a great adventure story — it is certainly one of that select handful that I have given to people, envying them the experience of the first reading.
However, only a handful of episodes later in " Sub Rosa ", we see that neither Beverly or Jean-Luc has been able to let go of those feelings and they are back to where they started, trying to pretend the feelings don't exist and that they have no problem being " just friends " with one another.
Senegal is one of only a handful of countries to have a near-enclave within its borders — the small nation of The Gambia in the interior, which has a 740 km border with Senegal.
Although most lodges throughout the English-speaking world do not confer the Scottish Rite versions of the first three degrees, there are a handful of lodges in New Orleans and in several other major cities that have traditionally conferred the Scottish Rite version of these degrees.

handful and survived
Through the 1950s and into the 1960s the Liberals survived only because a handful of constituencies in rural Scotland and Wales clung to their Liberal traditions, whilst in two English towns, Bolton and Huddersfield, local Liberals and Conservatives agreed to each contest only one of the town's two seats.
Though place names survived the deurbanized Sub-Roman and early Anglo-Saxon periods, and historiography has been at pains to signal the expected survivals, archaeology shows that a bare handful of Roman towns were continuously occupied.
Though the Philistines adopted local Canaanite culture and language before leaving any written texts ( and later adopted the Aramaic language ), an Indo-European origin has been suggested for a handful of known Philistine words that survived as loanwords in Hebrew.
This technology survived into the 21st century in a handful of oilfields in the US, transmitting power from a central pumping engine to the numerous pump-jacks in the oil field.
However, only a handful of these military treatises have survived, which includes the Wujing Zongyao written in 1044.
However, the Elliot Donaldson House, constructed in 1850 and added to the National Register in 1980, as well as a handful of other homes, has survived.
By 1933, after the end of Prohibition, the Coors brewery was one of only a handful of breweries that survived Prohibition intact.
A handful survived in one form or another until World War II.
According to Rashid, only a handful survived in each of the thirty containers and UN officials reported that just 6 out of an original 220 survived in one of the containers.
Will meets back with Robin and a handful of his most trusted aides who survived the assault by the Celts.
They survived in northern and central Italy as in a handful of other regions throughout Europe to become independent and powerful city-states.
He survived the siege of Oporto and the subsequent campaigning, but he gained little from it except experience and a handful of medals.
After World War II, only a handful of buses survived, and therefore some lorries were converted into buses.
The old power station, one of a handful buildings which survived the Second World War, and the cable center
Ideological Commentary survived until the death of Walford in 1994., barely a handful of systematic ideology's exponents remain.
Only a handful of humans have survived, while the rest have changed into mutants who roam the radioactive wastelands.
A hotel in the scenic Rock Park has not survived, and various cafes and restaurants have come and gone over the years leaving a handful of establishments currently operating.
Among the bare handful of plants Dombey had assembled during eight years at Lima, lemon verbena survived.
Only a handful survived the execution squads.
There are only a handful of colonies present in Germany, but larger numbers have survived in Norway ( lehzeni ), the Alps ( nigra ) and Poland and Belgium ( mellifera ).
Only three orchestral pieces and around 100 keyboard sonatas survived, plus a handful of choral works for liturgical use ( much more conservative than what one would expect from his instrumental music ).
He also found time to pen a few lovely waltzes, of which only a handful survived obscurity.

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