Example sentences of "dozen [conj] [adv] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the small veneered wooden counter a dozen or so keys dangled from hooks on a numbered board , together with a few dog-eared official-looking proclamations . |
| 2 | Erato 's main mid-price label is ‘ Emeraude ’ ( DDD ) — initially a dozen or so titles varying from Corelli and Charpentier to Grieg and Tchaikovsky , with established ‘ Erato ’ names such as Schimone , Koopman , Paillard and Guschbauer . |
| 3 | The main onus of filling all of the gaps appears to have fallen on the teachers of community languages themselves , and more precisely on the dozen or so coordinators employed by various local education authorities to supervise the insertion of community languages into the curriculum of mainstream schools . |
| 4 | There were a dozen or so cars parked near the entrance , including the Marshal 's small van , but not a soul in sight . |
| 5 | The Good Food Guide has also been dropping Stowell Street like a hot skillet , only the Dragon House among its dozen or so restaurants surviving into the 1992 edition . |
| 6 | Beyond the pine , and a little lower on the cliff , a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure . |
| 7 | I am a present looking at the dozen or so cones sitting on the floor and am making up my mind to do something with them , but even with ingenious ideas , how does one find time with all that knitting to do ? |
| 8 | I twisted in the seat to see that there were a dozen or so boats moored in the protected crook of the easternmost anchor fluke . |