Example sentences of "[subord] [art] dozen or [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |
2 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
3 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |
4 | In the whole of the American southwest , there are no more than a dozen or so . |
5 | er you would n't want to make them You would n't particularly have more than a dozen or so would you ? |
6 | But they are unlikely to be able to save more than a dozen or so seats . |
7 | After a dozen or so phone calls , we finally discovered that TSL had secured coverage on Sportschannel America , a national cable sports network which reaches approximately nine million households . |
8 | After a dozen or so of these , those of us used to more direct forms of speech are tempted to interpret them as self-parody . |