Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] a dozen [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now a group of about 4,000 former residents of the institutions in the 1950s and 1960s has filed a lawsuit against seven religious orders that operated a dozen orphanages or mental hospitals , accusing them of physical , sexual and psychological abuse and seeks damages of almost £1 billion . |
| 2 | Powell has earned , the hard way , the respect that prompted a dozen jockeys to telephone him in the week before the race . |
| 3 | The small town that had a dozen mills and a population of 10,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century had grown by 1890 to a place of 130,000 people and 265 mills , and was called ‘ the greatest cotton-spinning town in the world ’ . |
| 4 | Andy McDonald : ; The Look that launched a dozen acts |
| 5 | Me father drove here once and found a dozen men in balaclavas in the yard , it 's said . |
| 6 | He circled above it , watching , in case there was anything he could do ; until a passing Albatros fell on him and hammered a dozen bullets into his engine . |
| 7 | I turned my back on the lochan and walked a dozen paces away from the edge before heading back towards the road . |
| 8 | He had to put archers and javelin-throwers of his own up all the climbable trees before he had them on the run , and lost a dozen men to no purpose . |