Example sentences of "[vb past] about [art] dozen " in BNC.

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1 It involved about a dozen groups and a network of experts throughout Europe and is the largest future study of biotechnology that I am aware of .
2 She rejected about a dozen of these sample shades before she mentioned that they cost sixty or seventy pence each .
3 He saw about a dozen street ruffians trailing them through the streets .
4 Kitty took about a dozen tender puffs and then pressed the pad of her index finger most gently on the glowing weed .
5 They had about a dozen horse-drawn cabs and two hearses .
6 He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year .
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