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Jaleh Posted 8 years ago
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All but a hanful of them ...
It's currently home to 2500 people, all but a handful of them indigenous Inuits.
Could you please explain the underlined part to me?
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jaleh all but a handful of them = almost all of them
- jaleh all but a handful of them = almost all of them
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jaleh all but a handful of them indigenous Inuits.
How many items (like peanuts or pencils) can you hold in one hand? That is a "handful" in this context.
Handful has other meanings.
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