Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a dozen [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In Brockton , he turned up with a dozen fellow-students to revitalise local politics from the bottom up . |
| 4 | The Leeming airfield can get busy at times , so anything up to a dozen Tornados a day can visit us for refuelling . |
| 5 | Up to a dozen viewers had heard my throwaway remarks and had assumed that the party at Frenchay really would be out in the street . |
| 6 | AS PART of the North-West 's contribution to the 1992 ITV Telethon marathon fund-raising campaign , up to a dozen teams of 25 people will be attempting to pull Pacific Duke of Gloucester along a 150 yard stretch of track at Crewe Heritage Centre , on Saturday , July 18 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Coula trees grow close together at Taï , and so coula-nut-cracking is often quite a social activity , with up to a dozen chimpanzees feeding together . |
| 9 | These typically cater for up to a dozen boys and girls of various ages , and they are run by a houseparent with some assistance by day . |
| 10 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 11 | Workshops housing up to a dozen frames had been introduced into the villages by the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria , but the craft remained essentially a cottage industry for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | The British population stands at under forty pairs ; up to a dozen pairs breed at Leighton Moss . |
| 13 | Skippers say up to a dozen tankers can be seen drifting among them . |
| 14 | A dog otter 's territory can stretch for up to a dozen miles which gives some indication of their range . |
| 15 | In summer the reedbeds resound to the songs of reed and sedge warblers , and in spring up to a dozen bitterns boom mysteriously from the reeds . |
| 16 | But the anchorage where the destroyer headquarters ship with its rear admiral 's flag once lay , and where up to a dozen destroyers might be swinging with the tide at their buoys , was now empty water . |
| 17 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
| 18 | And the attraction for them is not the crystal clear images of HDTV , but the prospect of broadcasting up to a dozen channels carrying pictures of today 's conventional clarity over cables or satellite transponders that now carry only one channel , a marvel made possible by digital compression . |
| 19 | In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators . |
| 20 | In a attempt to reduce sectarian attacks by the three known UFF units in the Shankill area , up to a dozen policemen have been instructed shadow top loyalist suspects round the clock . |
| 21 | Up to a dozen candidates in the concurrent municipal elections [ see below ] were reportedly assassinated . |
| 22 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
| 23 | The Landmark Trust is always willing to consider new candidates for restoration and is often restoring up to a dozen buildings at any one time . |
| 24 | ELITE United States troops backed up by a dozen helicopters stormed a building in south Mogadishu today and arrested 17 Somali militiamen after a brief gunfight , a United Nations military spokesman said . |
| 25 | And you ask us to believe that out of a dozen car-parks and hundreds of side streets you could have chosen you picked this place by chance ? |
| 26 | A hundred years ago a ‘ piss-maker ’ was a great drinker ; to ‘ piss one 's tallow ’ meant to sweat ; a ‘ vinegar-pisser ’ was a miser ; to ‘ piss out of a dozen holes ’ was to have syphilis ; and to ‘ piss when one ca n't whistle ’ was to be hanged . |
| 27 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 28 | Father Morrow was accompanied by about a dozen supporters and pro-life campaigners . |
| 29 | Fr Morrow was accompanied by about a dozen supporters . |
| 30 | Is it really true that Watership Down was rejected by over a dozen publishers before it was taken on and became a bestseller ? |