Example sentences of "[adv] [art] dozen or [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ In countries like Australia and New Zealand the leading players play in the region of 25 rep games a season , perhaps a dozen or so of which will be full internationals . |
2 | Researchers around the world have only a dozen or so AFMs , compared with hundreds of STMs . |
3 | Cleared by the military Ohakea Control to climb into their airspace I coaxed a Grumman AA5 up to 11,000 feet , to look down into the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu , 9,175 feet high , to see steam and smoke coming from the crater within the torn and shattered peak of 6,517 foot Mount Tongariro ( whose last major eruption was only a dozen or so years back ) and to fly around the perfectly symmetrical cone of Mount Ngauruhoe . |
4 | Material from a smallpox pustule is introduced into the body of the person to be protected , by a light scratch , The patient should then receive a light dose of smallpox , with only a dozen or so pox , and lifetime active immunity . |
5 | The whistling frog from the Caribbean , which practises this technique , lays only a dozen or so , which it places on the ground . |
6 | Only a dozen or so of the creeps in the black nighties , but they 've got heavy weapons . |
7 | It is possible to travel to almost any country within a day 's journey , yet when the mother of Jesus travelled a day 's journey to visit her cousin Elizabeth she probably managed only a dozen or so miles . |
8 | Soon a dozen or so hands were raised and after their names had been written down and details of what their duties would involve the meeting was brought to a close . |
9 | There are also a dozen or so whitish spots about half-pinhead size . |
10 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
11 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
12 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
16 | Out of that 4,000 I saw maybe a dozen or so women . |
17 | Erato 's main mid-price label is ‘ Emeraude ’ ( DDD ) — initially a dozen or so titles varying from Corelli and Charpentier to Grieg and Tchaikovsky , with established ‘ Erato ’ names such as Schimone , Koopman , Paillard and Guschbauer . |
18 | I still do half a dozen or so of these scarlet cross-overs a year , to this day . |