Example sentences of "[verb] [art] dozen or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to catch a dozen or so adult ladybirds or larvae and place them in your aphid cage . |
| 2 | Only a handful of producers — say a dozen or so — regard wine as a viable commercial proposition . |
| 3 | Instead of one large corporate body , like the BBC , ITV comprised a dozen or so smaller production companies , all making , and prerecording , programmes for sale to each other and overseas . |
| 4 | It showed a dozen or so young men casually grouped around a bench on a sunlit lawn , wearing knife-creased flannels and striped blazers : the very antithesis of student life in the sixties . |
| 5 | ‘ And do you think a dozen or so irregulars are going to break a way into Parfois ? |
| 6 | I was relieved to see a dozen or so people form up in front of me . |
| 7 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll just tidy these up , ’ said her host , stuffing a dozen or so unwashed socks behind the grubby cushion . |
| 9 | Nor must I omit a dozen or so Turkish friends , whose friendship I was able to resume years later , above all Aziz and Ulviye Isvar and my closest Turkish friend — indeed one of my closest friends — Naci Ortaç , whose wife was the daughter of a Grand Vizier . |
| 10 | But to say " all barristers in chambers at 4 Dr Johnson 's Buildings are thieves " would be sufficiently specific to allow the dozen or so barristers in those chambers to take action . |
| 11 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 12 | Toby had a cupboard there in which he threw his golf clubs , normally with a high degree of disgust , and where he kept a dozen or so bottles of wine . |
| 13 | I can spot a dozen or more . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Most bakers can only offer a dozen or so cakes because it 's just a small part of their business . |
| 16 | The amount involved could have funded a dozen or so investigations of the social implications of the reduced rail network , or it could have kept open one of Serpell 's threatened stations — Stratford-upon-Avon , for example — for a year . |
| 17 | Urodeles usually have a dozen or so vertebrae in their spines ; a caecilian , however , may have as many as 270 . |
| 18 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he says , opening the cigarette case to reveal a dozen or so neatly rolled spliffs . |