Example sentences of "[prep] a dozen [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 2 | After a dozen years in the business Keener looks with particular affection on the recordings he has done with Leonard Slatkin , especially the Elgar and Vaughan Williams Symphonies . |
| 3 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 4 | Instead of a dozen Indians on the raft there were only two , each with just a pole at the back of the raft . |
| 5 | If Leonard and Moore become an effective unit and Lions ' newcomer Martin Johnson plays to his normal form , there is the possibility of a dozen Englishmen in the second Test . |
| 6 | Martin Brundle speaks with the disarming honesty of an F1 driver who is buying lunch in a private room at Au Jardin des Gourmets for a dozen pressmen on the day the Gulf war ended and a week before the F1 season started . |
| 7 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 8 | There is a strong temptation to paste what I access into what I 'm writing , or perhaps to forward a copy instantly to a colleague with a dozen taps on the keyboard . |
| 9 | Thin beads of light were pulsing from a dozen locations on the convoluted spiral arms of the space station . |
| 10 | The UK boasts more than 50 machines from a dozen manufacturers in the class which covers everything from outright super sports machines to all rounders , custom bikes and dual purpose on/off road trail bikes . |
| 11 | It has been detected in a dozen systems in the US and yesterday the Swiss government announced that 75 of its computers were infected . |
| 12 | Since joining Cardiff , Walker has become an overnight success , scoring eight First Division tries in a dozen matches as the club have moved up from strugglers last season to table-toppers . |
| 13 | Fifth , an interim report of the Avon Drug Abuse Monitoring Project ( Gay et al .1985 ) , which investigated problem drug users known to a dozen agencies during the one-year period ending March 1985 , reported an estimated annual prevalence rate of 0.5 known opioid users per 1,000 of the total Bristol population . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Up to a dozen candidates in the concurrent municipal elections [ see below ] were reportedly assassinated . |