Example sentences of "a dozen [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low stone walls divided the garden up into different segments , and these were marbled with moss and lichen in a dozen shades of gold and green , and often hidden completely under tumbling masses of roses , clematis and ivy . |
| 2 | Central defenders have done a good job today for Leicester of course I 've put the curse on him saying that he knocks it straight out of play but er Gary Mills who 's missed half a dozen games through injury is going to come on now and he 's going to take the place of Neil Lewis . |
| 3 | Tall and strong , with very broad shoulders , he would go on to claim 202 victims at 25 from his 47 Tests , of which 50 came in a dozen games against England . |
| 4 | Dawn and evening the three , tall Ruari , gangly Ranald , tiny Luch , tramped in uneven procession up to the moor carrying a dozen bags of leather . |
| 5 | I quickly found one who agreed to supply me with a dozen apples for threepence as long as I could guarantee the same order every day for the next month . |
| 6 | You would have to eat about a dozen apples in order to obtain that average daily 5 oz of sugar from this source ; you can imagine how long that would take and how difficult it would be to eat all the remainder of your daily food . |
| 7 | With a dozen spills to hand , I reached for the matches in my pouch . |
| 8 | Paul Grace and Councillor James Doherty came out of the court and appealed for restraint , and after negotiations with the police about a dozen relatives of defendants were allowed in . |
| 9 | The comparatively puny damages of £1,000 ( the cost of a dozen bottles of champagne at the expensive nightclub where the affair had begun ) and the public ridicule suffered by all parties may serve to remind editors of the wisdom of the adage that " dog does not eat dog in Fleet Street " . |
| 10 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 11 | He used t he used t he used to take about half a dozen bottles of beer on the Saturday morning with him and that 's where he used to be in his , in his galley and he would n't move out that galley all the time . |
| 12 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 13 | Emily knew that her beautiful daughter had a dozen friends at school , she had seen her walking down the street when classes were over , surrounded by other girls . |
| 14 | Of course as a plane that could happily take half a dozen buses on board , it 's going to be something of a new experience . |
| 15 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
| 16 | It was not long before someone threw a lump of broken paving through a window ; a dozen sets of plans followed it in short order . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm talking about a dozen sets of wheels , thirty or forty bods . |
| 18 | Half a dozen firms around Britain are testing the equipment for British Telecom . |
| 19 | There she stood , in a dove-grey suede dress , looped and hung with a dozen necklaces of amethyst and rock crystal and pearl , her thick black-grey hair piled heavily , pinned with silver , attending a party in the very house where as patient she once in many hour-long sessions had disclosed to Liz on the ground floor the very secrets of her murderous mother 's heart . |
| 20 | He counted nine loaves of bread on the highest shelf and a dozen tins of meat stacked on the dresser . |
| 21 | But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England . |
| 22 | You 'll end up with about a dozen letters on mantel again cos I always forget to post things . |
| 23 | He it was who inaugurated Continental excursions , for in 1925 he took a dozen boys to Bruges for eight days on an educational visit . |
| 24 | … that after paying at least a dozen visits to Cambridge and engaging in the most unpleasant negotiations I have ever had in my life , we have managed to retain recognition as a body which is normally recognised for Chapter III powers and obtained an agreement which the University people hate like poison . |
| 25 | ‘ It is a macabre thought ’ , wrote Monica Furlong in the Spectator ( 30 June ) , ‘ that if the Canterbury Special had crashed last Tuesday morning it would have wiped out at one go practically the whole of the English episcopate together with numerous foreign archbishops and bishops , most of the Orthodox patriarchs , the leaders of the Lutheran Churches in half a dozen countries of Europe and the heads of our own Free Churches . ’ |
| 26 | We had a oh nearly a dozen cases of eggs dozen sometimes for some farms . |
| 27 | Or have I fallen into the trap of seeing a dozen cases of doubt and declaring a universal epidemic ? |
| 28 | Vets in Hereford have dealt with more than a dozen cases of Distemper in recent weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't do half a dozen pages of dialogue if you 're pissed , ’ said Reed . |
| 30 | The East German leadership 's dilemma was underlined by mass demonstrations in a dozen cities on Monday night and the continuing flight of young East Germans yesterday through Czechoslovakia . |