Before gas drilling became an issue, only a handful of people would attend board meetings, Musante said.

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At midnight, only a handful of people on the ship knew that it would sink, but that did not mean that the ship was not sinking.

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The only people affected in an attack would be those directly exposed to the bacterium, likely only a handful of people.

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By analyzing a handful of cities, MIT concluded it would need one scooter per 1, 000 people.

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