Example sentences of "dozen [conj] [adv] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But to say " all barristers in chambers at 4 Dr Johnson 's Buildings are thieves " would be sufficiently specific to allow the dozen or so barristers in those chambers to take action . |
| 3 | Urodeles usually have a dozen or so vertebrae in their spines ; a caecilian , however , may have as many as 270 . |
| 4 | Of the dozen or so choirs in the Navy , including two in Gibraltar and Hong Kong , the one in Greenwich has sufficient expertise to record hymns for use in ships at sea . |
| 5 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 6 | However , the two dozen or so people in these departments who did relocate had sufficient skills and experience to provide training for newcomers as the business gradually transferred . |
| 7 | 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 . |