Quite a lot, according to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature.
据英国《每日新闻》引用的少数科学家的话说，这一数字相当高
Only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean are suitable for sustaining large breeding colonies.
南大洋中只有少数岛屿适合大型群落繁衍生存。
In 1993, few corporations had a web page, and only a handful allowed one to order products or services online.
1993年，很少有公司有自己的网页，只有少数公司为用户支持在线订购产品或服务。
Argentina is one of only a handful of countries that refuse all dealings with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
阿根廷是少数拒绝与国际货币基金组织（IMF）进行所有交易的国家之一。
A handful of people can recall almost every day of their lives in enormous detail—and after years of research, neuroscientists are finally beginning to understand how they do it.
少数人能详细回忆起生活中的几乎每一天——经过多年研究，神经科学家终于开始了解这些人是如何做到的。
She scooped up a handful of sand and let it trickle through her fingers.
她抓了一把沙子，然后让它们从指缝间慢慢漏掉。
I can't take this handful of nuts out of the jar.
我无法把这把坚果从罐子里拿出来。
I bought a handful of perfectly ripe small strawberries and a little sweet melon.
我买了一把熟透了的小草莓和一个小甜瓜。
Millions of waterfowl were killed at the hands of market hunters and a handful of overly ambitious sportsmen.
数以百万计的水禽死于贩猎猎人以及少数野心勃勃的打猎爱好者之手。
Last October, while tending her garden in Mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw them away.
去年10月，莉娜·帕尔森在瑞典莫拉打理花园时，摘了一把小胡萝卜，准备扔掉。
He walked into the shop, bought a handful of wild flower seeds, and from the next day on put these seeds along the roadside.
他走进店里，买了一把野花的种子，从第二天起就把这些种子撒在路边。
Some people who were looking at him shook their heads and said, "You are crazy? Those are chili peppers! You can't just eat them by the handful!"
有些人看着他摇摇头说：“你疯了吗？那些是辣椒！你不能一把一把地吃！”
Dad answered, shaking a handful of greens.
爸爸一边回答，一边摇晃着一把绿色蔬菜。
She takes a handful of ash, the flakes are large and sticky.
她取出一把灰末，是那种大片而粘性很好的。
She stopped at one vendor, flashed her badge, and picked a handful of mushrooms.
她在一个小贩跟前停住了，亮了亮徽章，然后抓起一把蘑菇。
He put a hand as big as a spade into the net and pulled out a handful of mullets.
他把一只铁锹那么大的手伸进网里，抓出一把鲻鱼。
Retail prices for a handful of tomatoes at local markets have risen from $0.50 to $2.50.
在当地市场上，少量西红柿的零售价从0.5美元涨到了2.5美元。
Air India is one of only a handful of large airlines without a big domestic feeder airline.
印度航空是少数几家没有大型国内航空支线的大型航空公司之一。
Now, the island is one of only a handful of lesser flamingo breeding colonies in the world.
目前该岛是世界上为数不多的小火烈鸟繁殖基地之一。
Can you be sure you've noted every snack bar in your car, or every handful of nuts at your desk?
你能确定你已经记下了你车里的每一个存放零食的地方，或者你桌子上的每一把坚果了吗？
Tom responded by scattering a handful of bright new coins abroad for the multitude to scramble for.
汤姆撒了一把亮闪闪的新硬币作为回应，让大家去抢。
Nunavut is 1.9 million square kilometres of rock and ice, and a handful of islands around the North Pole.
努纳武特地区包括190万平方公里被岩石和冰雪覆盖的陆地，以及北极附近的几个岛屿。
Toad straddled on the hearth-rug, thrust his paw into his trouser-pocket and pulled out a handful of silver.
癞蛤蟆托德叉开腿坐在炉前的地毯上，把爪子伸进裤兜，掏出一把银币。
Frequency of crying varies widely: some shed tears at any novel or movie, others only a handful of times in their lives.
哭泣的频率差别很大：有些人在看小说或电影时都会流泪，有些人一生中只会流几次泪。
A handful of lawsuits have been filed in recent years against companies accused of using misleading environmental labels.
近年来，一些公司因使用误导性的环保标签而被起诉。
It is easily extracted, because it is one of a handful of genes found outside the cell nucleus, in structures called mitochondria.
它很容易提取，因为它是在细胞核之外、叫做线粒体的结构里被发现的少量基因之一。
A handful of Africa's unique island mammal families that were present 26 million years ago are absent from sites younger than Mush.
在比 Mush更年轻的遗址中，不少2600万年前只属于非洲大陆的哺乳科动物消失了。
I set out in darkness on Huntington Beach in California to run across America, one of a handful of competitors in the LA to NY Footrace 2011.
我在加利福尼亚州亨廷顿海滩摸黑出发跑步穿越美国，我是2011年洛杉矶到纽约竞走大赛为数不多的竞争者之一。
There are a handful of claims that people make about death suggesting that they think that death is mysterious or unique or hard to comprehend.
人们对死亡提出了一些主张，他们认为，死亡是神秘的、或独特的，或难以理解的。
Noticing the commotion, she reached into her purse for a handful of hard candies and offered them to the kids in return for their good behavior.
她注意到骚动，从钱包里掏出一把硬糖，给了表现好的孩子们。
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