Example sentences of "a dozen [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the houses would be occupied by one family and not by a dozen or more assorted tenants . |
| 2 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
| 3 | So probably a total stock of a dozen or more White Clouds , a dozen Zebra Danios , five female and one male American Flags ( females have a dot on the dorsal fin ) , six Black Widows and Six Red Eyes , with perhaps six Rosy or Aurulius barbs ( though I have my doubts about the later having once come across three three-inch specimens that tried to eat Corydoras for breakfast ) and the pair of sluggard cats . |
| 4 | In the forest here , as elsewhere , the wild cocoa trees reach their full natural height of 20 m or so ( under plantation conditions cocoa trees rarely exceed 10 m ) and develop as clusters of a dozen or more leaning trunks . |
| 5 | Evidence from sea-bed sediment cores suggests that , in the 1.8 million years since the start of the Pleistocene , the temperate and polar regions have passed through a dozen or more warm-cold cycles caused primarily by changes in levels of incident radiation . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll just tidy these up , ’ said her host , stuffing a dozen or so unwashed socks behind the grubby cushion . |
| 7 | Later , when people got squeamish about that sort of thing , they substituted cats — a dozen or so live cats tied up in a sack . |
| 8 | The ship 's library , in addition to all the necessary navigational books , a Bible , a Book of Common Prayer , accounts of Antarctic expeditions and a dozen or so lurid paperbacks , contained one or two self-help books , among them one on the rigging and canvassing of sailing vessels . |
| 9 | A dozen or so extra men had made their appearance in Sir Walter Raleigh Park , with wives and children who now assisted with the preparations . |
| 10 | They include a dozen pre-Cubist works , half a dozen or so Cubist drawings and paintings , some Thirties landscapes , and end with three heads of cavaliers from the Sixties . |
| 11 | Between a fetid canal and a railway line , under the bleaching afternoon sun , a dozen or so young men stand in line , waiting to buy cocaine . |
| 12 | It showed a dozen or so young men casually grouped around a bench on a sunlit lawn , wearing knife-creased flannels and striped blazers : the very antithesis of student life in the sixties . |
| 13 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 14 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
| 15 | Every day half a dozen or so old ladies leave a million pounds or more , generally widows whose major asset was a decent house in the South-east . |
| 16 | Nor must I omit a dozen or so Turkish friends , whose friendship I was able to resume years later , above all Aziz and Ulviye Isvar and my closest Turkish friend — indeed one of my closest friends — Naci Ortaç , whose wife was the daughter of a Grand Vizier . |
| 17 | Furthermore , since there are now well-established Caribbean communities in a dozen or so English cities , each with a slightly different population distribution and distinct needs , any attempt to discuss the language behaviour of Caribbeans in Britain will need to consider each community separately . |
| 18 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |
| 19 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
| 20 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
| 21 | Nightlife is informal , with a dozen or so quiet bars and about 15 restaurants offering delicious home made pasta dishes . |
| 22 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 23 | A dozen or so greenish boulders lurked with angular menace below . |
| 24 | There are also a dozen or so whitish spots about half-pinhead size . |
| 25 | A dozen or so well-bred men in dark suits — some of them , noted Dyson with interest , wearing Brigade ties — were standing about drinking gin and smiling agreeably at each other 's jokes . |
| 26 | Try to catch a dozen or so adult ladybirds or larvae and place them in your aphid cage . |