Example sentences of "[art] dozen [conj] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to say " all barristers in chambers at 4 Dr Johnson 's Buildings are thieves " would be sufficiently specific to allow the dozen or so barristers in those chambers to take action . |
| 2 | A new entrant , joining in July 1960 , had devilled for all but one of the dozen or so lawyers by Christmas . |
| 3 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 4 | But were it not for the perceived economic might of a more unified Economic Community , the dozen or so nations of the Pacific Rim , who have been meeting in Australia , might not have bothered . |
| 5 | Of the dozen or so choirs in the Navy , including two in Gibraltar and Hong Kong , the one in Greenwich has sufficient expertise to record hymns for use in ships at sea . |
| 6 | Urodeles usually have a dozen or so vertebrae in their spines ; a caecilian , however , may have as many as 270 . |
| 7 | The amount involved could have funded a dozen or so investigations of the social implications of the reduced rail network , or it could have kept open one of Serpell 's threatened stations — Stratford-upon-Avon , for example — for a year . |
| 8 | For example , in a dozen or so villages during 1928 and 1929 , Pateman and a young teacher , W. P. Baker , provided short courses of the Chapter III type on rural history . |
| 9 | This is — and we can say the same about a dozen or so batsmen in our region including Somerset 's luckless Ricky Bartlett and Gloucestershire 's Mark Alleyne — a crucial summer for him . |
| 10 | Toby had a cupboard there in which he threw his golf clubs , normally with a high degree of disgust , and where he kept a dozen or so bottles of wine . |
| 11 | Apart from having to compete with the other half a dozen or so suppliers like Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Sun , USL has no real marketing experience . |
| 12 | Integrated circuits are available in which everything except the switching control transistor , smoothing capacitors and the necessary inductances are built in , and a supply can be fabricated by a dozen or so connections to the chip . |
| 13 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 14 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 15 | This is usually done by a guillotine that cuts back a bundle of a dozen or so plants at a time , and it is not unusual to find the cut ends chopped and bruised rather roughly . |
| 16 | She had been expecting the pool to be almost empty at that time of day and was surprised to see that there were about a dozen or so people in the water . |
| 17 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |