Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] dozen " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building , which was owned by the church , was made up of a dozen self-contained flats rented out to respectable young women who had gone through the children 's home and school of St Mary 's Convent in Bermondsey . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ask around among advertising writers and you will find they have got in through a dozen different doors : journalism , the entertainment business , being secretaries , or just by having a go . |
| 4 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
| 5 | Father Morrow was accompanied by about a dozen supporters and pro-life campaigners . |
| 6 | Fr Morrow was accompanied by about a dozen supporters . |
| 7 | Is it really true that Watership Down was rejected by over a dozen publishers before it was taken on and became a bestseller ? |
| 8 | John of Brittany and much of the garrison fled by ship , but Turberville was captured along with a dozen other knights . |
| 9 | 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 . |