Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a dozen [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She began a letter a month after their arrival with the words , ‘ Here we are in a large mansion , in a large park , with seventy head of deer around us ’ , before going on to describe a house which contained ‘ furniture enough for a dozen families like ours ’ .
2 AS PART of the North-West 's contribution to the 1992 ITV Telethon marathon fund-raising campaign , up to a dozen teams of 25 people will be attempting to pull Pacific Duke of Gloucester along a 150 yard stretch of track at Crewe Heritage Centre , on Saturday , July 18 .
3 They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time .
4 On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her .
5 Up to a dozen candidates in the concurrent municipal elections [ see below ] were reportedly assassinated .
6 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 .
7 The Modernists had enjoyed a brief life as a London group after Pound settled there for a dozen years in 1908 ; Bloomsbury was already one , first in Cambridge and later in London and Sussex , sharing not just a range of assumptions and convictions but an intimate web of social and amorous relations .
8 Instead of a dozen Indians on the raft there were only two , each with just a pole at the back of the raft .
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