Example sentences of "[prep] a dozen [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One had writing paper and envelopes , and one three tins of pipe tobacco and an unopened pack of a dozen boxes of matches . |
| 2 | The comparatively puny damages of £1,000 ( the cost of a dozen bottles of champagne at the expensive nightclub where the affair had begun ) and the public ridicule suffered by all parties may serve to remind editors of the wisdom of the adage that " dog does not eat dog in Fleet Street " . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm talking about a dozen sets of wheels , thirty or forty bods . |
| 4 | With a dozen spills to hand , I reached for the matches in my pouch . |
| 5 | There she stood , in a dove-grey suede dress , looped and hung with a dozen necklaces of amethyst and rock crystal and pearl , her thick black-grey hair piled heavily , pinned with silver , attending a party in the very house where as patient she once in many hour-long sessions had disclosed to Liz on the ground floor the very secrets of her murderous mother 's heart . |
| 6 | I quickly found one who agreed to supply me with a dozen apples for threepence as long as I could guarantee the same order every day for the next month . |
| 7 | Armed with a dozen rolls of film , I put six cameras to the test in the rain-lashed hills of Snowdonia . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
| 9 | But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England . |
| 10 | Tall and strong , with very broad shoulders , he would go on to claim 202 victims at 25 from his 47 Tests , of which 50 came in a dozen games against England . |
| 11 | Low stone walls divided the garden up into different segments , and these were marbled with moss and lichen in a dozen shades of gold and green , and often hidden completely under tumbling masses of roses , clematis and ivy . |
| 12 | The East German leadership 's dilemma was underlined by mass demonstrations in a dozen cities on Monday night and the continuing flight of young East Germans yesterday through Czechoslovakia . |
| 13 | Envy of the children — or over-concentration upon them by the other partner -will show itself in a dozen ways in attitudes and actions . |