Example sentences of "be a dozen [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 're a dozen others — Peter . |
| 2 | There must have been a dozen rotundas , each displaying blow-ups of contemporary newspaper clippings , photographs , posters , etc . |
| 3 | It must have been a dozen years since they were last used . |
| 4 | ‘ Once past the Swamp and across the Highway there are a dozen paths to choose from . ’ |
| 5 | There are a dozen states asking to join and participate in an all-European economic and political arrangement . |
| 6 | Across the patio are a dozen doors , none intact . |
| 7 | Mind you , it would be more comforting if he could do the same with those who are a dozen years younger than he is . |
| 8 | For every bright-eyed wagon train or trail blazing adventure , there are a dozen Westerns dealing with lawmen or outlaws who have outlived their times and now find themselves constrained by the pettiness of a civilisation which is rarely grateful for the way they have cleared the ground for its progress . |
| 9 | There would also be a dozen girls from the brothel in attendance , they would provide colour , and nothing more . |
| 10 | And you can not have a situation where the the sort of almost the norm is , Any difficult decision the government is gon na have to take , there 'll be a dozen colleagues who say , not for us . |
| 11 | In place of a sandy , open heath , supporting a rough pasture , there would be a dozen miles of flowering hawthorn in time , enclosing small fields that were being assiduously marled to produce corn crops . |
| 12 | There were a dozen riders . |
| 13 | There were a dozen magazines , a TV set , four telephones — one red one marked ‘ emergency ’ — and a small illuminated panel which gave a current weather report . |
| 14 | In the same issue , however , there were a dozen advertisements for surgical appliances and five for abortifacients . |
| 15 | They were a dozen paces down a ground-floor corridor , and then ushered into an interview room . |
| 16 | There were a dozen mourners from the family in the front pews — women with grey curls and mild glasses , an old man bent over a stick , his head projecting forwards from the unoccupied collar of his overcoat like a tortoise 's ; a schoolboy in a neat navy-blue trenchcoat , holding a maroon cap . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I thought if I do n't get these exams , I wo n't get a job , because that 's what people rubbed into us , and then I thought , well , Christ , if I went down town now and had a look , I bet there 's a dozen jobs that 'd suit me . |
| 18 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 19 | The Greek merchant fleet is much smaller than it was a dozen years ago . |
| 20 | Dysart Engineering was one of the success stories of West Midlands industry after the Depression and , as Gordon Dysart 's only son , young Alan was a dozen rungs above the likes of you and me on the ladder of life before he 'd so much as lost his milk teeth . |
| 21 | She was a dozen paces from the man with the gun , and she heard nothing . |