Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] dozen " in BNC.
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| 1 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 2 | Skippers say up to a dozen tankers can be seen drifting among them . |
| 3 | In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators . |
| 4 | The building , which was owned by the church , was made up of a dozen self-contained flats rented out to respectable young women who had gone through the children 's home and school of St Mary 's Convent in Bermondsey . |
| 5 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 6 | Ask around among advertising writers and you will find they have got in through a dozen different doors : journalism , the entertainment business , being secretaries , or just by having a go . |
| 7 | In Brockton , he turned up with a dozen fellow-students to revitalise local politics from the bottom up . |
| 8 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
| 9 | Father Morrow was accompanied by about a dozen supporters and pro-life campaigners . |
| 10 | Fr Morrow was accompanied by about a dozen supporters . |
| 11 | If we did that then face it , Fred , we 'd end up like a dozen other so-called topical news programmes . |
| 12 | A hundred years ago a ‘ piss-maker ’ was a great drinker ; to ‘ piss one 's tallow ’ meant to sweat ; a ‘ vinegar-pisser ’ was a miser ; to ‘ piss out of a dozen holes ’ was to have syphilis ; and to ‘ piss when one ca n't whistle ’ was to be hanged . |
| 13 | S. H. The kids — many a time you would go about with a dozen bloody sweets in your pocket . |
| 14 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 15 | Workshops housing up to a dozen frames had been introduced into the villages by the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria , but the craft remained essentially a cottage industry for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | For example , if I 'm starting college and searching for somewhere to live , I might come up with a dozen possible ideas . |
| 17 | Other reports said up to a dozen wanted people had given themselves up in Tulkarm . |
| 18 | On normal days , of course , Lord Darlington took his meals , as does Mr Farraday today , in the more intimate atmosphere of the dining room , which is ideal for accommodating up to a dozen . |
| 19 | Is it really true that Watership Down was rejected by over a dozen publishers before it was taken on and became a bestseller ? |
| 20 | John of Brittany and much of the garrison fled by ship , but Turberville was captured along with a dozen other knights . |
| 21 | The Landmark Trust is always willing to consider new candidates for restoration and is often restoring up to a dozen buildings at any one time . |
| 22 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
| 23 | ELITE United States troops backed up by a dozen helicopters stormed a building in south Mogadishu today and arrested 17 Somali militiamen after a brief gunfight , a United Nations military spokesman said . |
| 24 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |