Sprinkling

There was a sprinkling of foreigners among the visitors in the museum.

It's sprinkling.

It's sprinkling outside.

Sprinkling salt on your food is an unhealthy habit.

It's like sprinkling water on a desert.

Among the devotees […] were persons who suffered from loathsome skin diseases, such as smallpox, abscesses, and the itch; and among them there was a fair sprinkling of debauchees, who had drunk themselves nearly blind and hoped to recover the use of their precious eyes by parading for a month in this curious mantle.

It notes: "The Welsh Government's view is that genuine 'levelling up' cannot simply mean a sprinkling of new, ad hoc rail projects decided in Whitehall, it has to be part of a strategic approach to promoting growth in all parts of the UK."