Example sentences of "[adv] a dozen [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And did you hear the one about the rabbi caught out , on the most solemn fast-day of the year , slurping down a dozen oysters . |
| 2 | Dollar interest rates cracked the price of gold down a dozen years ago when they were hoisted to 20 per cent . |
| 3 | Mills and Boon is but one of perhaps a dozen companies in what their company profile describes as ‘ the competitive and fast-growing world of romantic fiction ’ . |
| 4 | They were in a village of perhaps a dozen houses and a white log church , out on a plain somewhere under a big , big sky ; each building stood well apart from its neighbours with just open common land between them , and the grass on that common land was deep and uncut . |
| 5 | He has purchased Freud 's production from the last eighteen months , perhaps a dozen canvases , including several pictures of considerable scale , the subjects of which are nude female figures and portraits of performance artist , Leigh Bowery . |
| 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 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 8 | Horse-drawn Corporation open-sided dust carts and perhaps a dozen men were brought into action and , after disposal of the worst of the refuse , the surface was well hosed . |
| 9 | Assuming a three-course rotation , it implies 7 — 8 acres arable plus meadow and grazing ( or common rights ) , making a farm of perhaps a dozen acres — bigger if ‘ corn ’ meant only the cereal crop . |
| 10 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 11 | Er , with reference section , perhaps describes all parts of the system , and the index is very useful , even though it 's only a dozen pages long , your manual . |
| 12 | Crawford did only a dozen spots of four minutes each during late 1964 and early 1965 , but the impact was such that viewers remembered the character for years afterwards . |
| 13 | As it is , SunSelect has reportedly validated only a dozen Windows applications on WABI and the thing still does n't print . |
| 14 | A self certification programme for Wabi vendors starts in June — though there are reportedly only a dozen Windows applications up on it and the thing still does n't print — Wabi 1.0 will be out in the summer . |
| 15 | As it is , SunSelect has reportedly validated only a dozen Windows applications on WABI and the thing still does n't print . |
| 16 | A self certification programme for Wabi vendors starts in June — though there are said to be only a dozen Windows applications up on it and the thing still does n't print — Wabi 1.0 will be out in the summer . |
| 17 | Ms Fitzgerald puts initial demand at perhaps only a dozen companies in the US , but adds that they are leading edge customers which other potential users will be watching carefully . |
| 18 | If country banks were a product of the latter half of the eighteenth century , country banking functionally defined has a longer history , despite the fact that only a dozen institutions formally known as banks were in existence before 1750 . |
| 19 | Although it comprises only a dozen paintings , sixteen works on paper and thirteen woodcuts and other graphic material , it is , in fact , the most significant presentation of his art since the Guggenheim Museum 's ‘ Expressionism : A German intuition 1905-20 ’ of 1980 . |
| 20 | Retaining only a dozen men to accompany the vehicles when they entered the grounds , he divided the remainder into two parties and dispatched them to cover the area north of the perimeter fence . |
| 21 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 22 | However , the most distinctive part was not the chalk uplands but the little Thames-side hundred of Stoke , lying on the richest soil and closest to London , where little short of half the aggregate wealth belonged to just a dozen men — 2½ per cent of the listed inhabitants — rated at £40 and upwards , indeed practically one-third belonged to the five rated at £100 or more . |
| 23 | Last night , a move to introduce such a scheme was defeated by just a dozen votes . |
| 24 | Such was their isolation that their way of life hardly reflected at all the kind to be found just a dozen miles away . |
| 25 | Frozen , she shot her head round towards the noise , her eyes widening as she saw Travis 's still figure not a dozen yards away . |
| 26 | She was glancing through a newssheet that she had looked through already a dozen times and that in any case told nothing particularly interesting . |
| 27 | Jonathan Speelman and Jan Timman rattled off a dozen moves each and Karpov and Artur Yusupov sped to move 15 . |
| 28 | Blunt saw nothing ahead but he shot off a dozen rounds on impulse as he plunged through a great hole . |
| 29 | We had a oh nearly a dozen cases of eggs dozen sometimes for some farms . |
| 30 | There are nearly a dozen keystrokes which operate toggles . |