Example sentences of "a dozen [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So realism suggests a limit on the number of candidates , and if in some Irish constituencies there are a dozen or even a score the reason is that they include candidates of small or perhaps minuscule parties besides more or less cranky independents : the two major parties are not responsible . |
| 2 | It has three Vermeers ( only 30 exist ) , notably Head of a Girl and View of Delft ( to Proust , the most beautiful painting in the world ) , a dozen jolly Steens , full of lasciviousness and coded morality , a dozen or more great Rembrandts , and Paulus Potter 's huge Young Bull . |
| 3 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
| 4 | I can spot a dozen or more . ’ |
| 5 | But more often they took the little leafy lane which led from Thrush Green to Upper Pleshy , Nod and Nidden , the lane that threaded half a dozen or more sleepy thatched villages , like hoary old beads upon its winding string , before it emerged upon the broad highway which led to Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 6 | In the forest here , as elsewhere , the wild cocoa trees reach their full natural height of 20 m or so ( under plantation conditions cocoa trees rarely exceed 10 m ) and develop as clusters of a dozen or more leaning trunks . |
| 7 | The same method using netting would make effective protection for a bed of a dozen or more high-yielding strawberry plants . |
| 8 | Death in old age is usually due to heart disease ; smoking is one of a dozen or more interacting risk factors that accelerate the age-related decay in the heart and arteries . |
| 9 | So probably a total stock of a dozen or more White Clouds , a dozen Zebra Danios , five female and one male American Flags ( females have a dot on the dorsal fin ) , six Black Widows and Six Red Eyes , with perhaps six Rosy or Aurulius barbs ( though I have my doubts about the later having once come across three three-inch specimens that tried to eat Corydoras for breakfast ) and the pair of sluggard cats . |
| 10 | Here the houses would be occupied by one family and not by a dozen or more assorted tenants . |
| 11 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 12 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 13 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 14 | But while the United States , France , the UK and Germany still find themselves in similar league positions to a hundred years ago , there is now a growing challenge from a dozen or more previously dependent nations , especially in Asia . |
| 15 | There looked to be over a pound of the delicious , translucent sweets the bag was bursting , spilling over so that a dozen or more lay scattered on the dusty floor , gleaming like diamonds through the wrappers . |
| 16 | Evidence from sea-bed sediment cores suggests that , in the 1.8 million years since the start of the Pleistocene , the temperate and polar regions have passed through a dozen or more warm-cold cycles caused primarily by changes in levels of incident radiation . |
| 17 | This investigation is therefore intended to be both a serious historical research project based on a dozen or more geographically dispersed archives and a contribution to the wider understanding of a society at the centre of much attention but little insight . |
| 18 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
| 19 | It was full of long tables that seated from six and eight to a dozen or more . |
| 20 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 21 | Every day half a dozen or so old ladies leave a million pounds or more , generally widows whose major asset was a decent house in the South-east . |
| 22 | Researchers around the world have only a dozen or so AFMs , compared with hundreds of STMs . |
| 23 | It will release a dozen or so films this year with an average cost of $5m , all aimed at audiences too small for the big studios to chase . |
| 24 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 25 | I was relieved to see a dozen or so people form up in front of me . |
| 26 | For example , in a dozen or so villages during 1928 and 1929 , Pateman and a young teacher , W. P. Baker , provided short courses of the Chapter III type on rural history . |
| 27 | Nightlife is informal , with a dozen or so quiet bars and about 15 restaurants offering delicious home made pasta dishes . |
| 28 | Four yemery trees shaded the cabin and a dozen or so pines were scattered across the upper slope . |
| 29 | Beyond the pine , and a little lower on the cliff , a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure . |
| 30 | This has the same view as Philip Swallow 's , but is smaller — indeed , rather too small for all the furniture it contains : a desk , bookcases , filing cabinets , a table and a dozen or so unstacked stacking chairs . |