Example sentences of "a dozen [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely heard from his mother , but he rang her each Christmas morning , wherever he was , and on her birthday , and he sent her maybe a dozen postcards a year . |
| 2 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 3 | Myself , I get a dozen invitations a year … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day — your house becomes a transport cafe . |
| 9 | Equally , half a dozen times a day she felt again his hand on her , and she burned . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 13 | For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 . |
| 14 | The Leeming airfield can get busy at times , so anything up to a dozen Tornados a day can visit us for refuelling . |
| 15 | I get a dozen scripts a week like that . |
| 16 | She works in oils and , among other things , paints about a dozen portraits a year , charging £400 upwards . |
| 17 | Two hundred catalogues of the library were printed and there were about a dozen borrowers a week . |
| 18 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
| 19 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
| 20 | The original version of this machine — which Nelson eventually patented in 1955 — could cut about a dozen bars a minute : the version now in use can cut up to 400 a minute . |