Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a dozen [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 2 | Mills and Boon is but one of perhaps a dozen companies in what their company profile describes as ‘ the competitive and fast-growing world of romantic fiction ’ . |
| 3 | All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course . |
| 4 | Each autumn , collective ministerial choices of about a dozen topics for PAR studies were to be made in co-operation with the CPRS . |
| 5 | You 'll end up with about a dozen letters on mantel again cos I always forget to post things . |
| 6 | That translates into about a dozen seats in parliament and would be enough to cost the government its overall majority . |
| 7 | He 'd had an intense affair at Oxford which had drifted through almost a dozen years of indeterminate life and ended in a brutal rejection . |
| 8 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire she sometimes uses the name Cindy and sometimes Linda . |
| 9 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 10 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 11 | … that after paying at least a dozen visits to Cambridge and engaging in the most unpleasant negotiations I have ever had in my life , we have managed to retain recognition as a body which is normally recognised for Chapter III powers and obtained an agreement which the University people hate like poison . |
| 12 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |