Example sentences of "[prep] a dozen [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village boasted a fleet of a dozen or so small fishing boats , which Ashley had seen setting sail at night and returning with their slippery silver haul in the mornings . |
| 2 | First up , they were stopped at the US border for the customary van search and their local driver was found to be in possession of a dozen or so ready-rolled ‘ recreational ’ cigarettes . |
| 3 | The same method using netting would make effective protection for a bed of a dozen or more high-yielding strawberry plants . |
| 4 | Death in old age is usually due to heart disease ; smoking is one of a dozen or more interacting risk factors that accelerate the age-related decay in the heart and arteries . |
| 5 | So probably a total stock of a dozen or more White Clouds , a dozen Zebra Danios , five female and one male American Flags ( females have a dot on the dorsal fin ) , six Black Widows and Six Red Eyes , with perhaps six Rosy or Aurulius barbs ( though I have my doubts about the later having once come across three three-inch specimens that tried to eat Corydoras for breakfast ) and the pair of sluggard cats . |
| 6 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
| 7 | In the forest here , as elsewhere , the wild cocoa trees reach their full natural height of 20 m or so ( under plantation conditions cocoa trees rarely exceed 10 m ) and develop as clusters of a dozen or more leaning trunks . |
| 8 | Evidence from sea-bed sediment cores suggests that , in the 1.8 million years since the start of the Pleistocene , the temperate and polar regions have passed through a dozen or more warm-cold cycles caused primarily by changes in levels of incident radiation . |
| 9 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
| 10 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
| 11 | Nightlife is informal , with a dozen or so quiet bars and about 15 restaurants offering delicious home made pasta dishes . |
| 12 | Furthermore , since there are now well-established Caribbean communities in a dozen or so English cities , each with a slightly different population distribution and distinct needs , any attempt to discuss the language behaviour of Caribbeans in Britain will need to consider each community separately . |
| 13 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |
| 14 | Here the houses would be occupied by one family and not by a dozen or more assorted tenants . |
| 15 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |