Example sentences of "[art] dozen times [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eden would ring up , sometimes as often as a dozen times a day , to ask why there had been a certain speech made in the provinces by a member of the opposition , why an answer had n't been given , and that sort of thing . |
| 2 | A dozen times a day she pictured the woman with prematurely white hair who was now holding Angel to her breast , and she ached with longing to change places with her . |
| 3 | The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day — your house becomes a transport cafe . |
| 4 | Equally , half a dozen times a day she felt again his hand on her , and she burned . |
| 5 | Whores did this , after all , a dozen times a day and would not recognize the man should they meet him in the street an hour later . |
| 6 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 7 | ‘ About half a dozen times a year we find tarballs on that coast , which can come from right across the Atlantic , or passing ships could be to blame . ’ |
| 8 | But I need n't have worried , she came to me just as smoothly as before , and I flew her half a dozen times a session over the next four days . |