Example sentences of "[prep] a dozen [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 2 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 3 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 4 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 5 | ‘ I was attacked by a dozen vagabonds two miles from here . |