Example sentences of "of a dozen [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of a dozen Indians on the raft there were only two , each with just a pole at the back of the raft . |
| 2 | One had writing paper and envelopes , and one three tins of pipe tobacco and an unopened pack of a dozen boxes of matches . |
| 3 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |
| 4 | It 's one of a dozen drugs of its kind currently being researched . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 7 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 8 | If Leonard and Moore become an effective unit and Lions ' newcomer Martin Johnson plays to his normal form , there is the possibility of a dozen Englishmen in the second Test . |
| 9 | The first woman to become a world Grandmaster of bridge , she was bridge correspondent of The Guardian and author of a dozen books including her autobiography , A Vulnerable Game . |