Example sentences of "dozen [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll just tidy these up , ’ said her host , stuffing a dozen or so unwashed socks behind the grubby cushion . |
| 2 | The hunters are the half dozen or so experienced adult males in the group . |
| 3 | They include a dozen pre-Cubist works , half a dozen or so Cubist drawings and paintings , some Thirties landscapes , and end with three heads of cavaliers from the Sixties . |
| 4 | Perhaps a new young star would make his insistent mark on the golfing heavens ; or , more likely , one of the top dozen or so established golfers would add to his bank balance . |
| 5 | Later , when people got squeamish about that sort of thing , they substituted cats — a dozen or so live cats tied up in a sack . |
| 6 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 7 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
| 8 | A dozen or so extra men had made their appearance in Sir Walter Raleigh Park , with wives and children who now assisted with the preparations . |
| 9 | These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate 's most virulent and inventive poisons . |
| 10 | Between a fetid canal and a railway line , under the bleaching afternoon sun , a dozen or so young men stand in line , waiting to buy cocaine . |
| 11 | It showed a dozen or so young men casually grouped around a bench on a sunlit lawn , wearing knife-creased flannels and striped blazers : the very antithesis of student life in the sixties . |
| 12 | To her right the blind yellowstone wall of another tall building rose majestically — a perfect backdrop for the dozen or so pink-clothed tables , laid for morning coffee , their pristine china no whiter than the latticed chairs which surrounded them . |
| 13 | The village boasted a fleet of a dozen or so small fishing boats , which Ashley had seen setting sail at night and returning with their slippery silver haul in the mornings . |
| 14 | The ship 's library , in addition to all the necessary navigational books , a Bible , a Book of Common Prayer , accounts of Antarctic expeditions and a dozen or so lurid paperbacks , contained one or two self-help books , among them one on the rigging and canvassing of sailing vessels . |
| 15 | Furthermore , since there are now well-established Caribbean communities in a dozen or so English cities , each with a slightly different population distribution and distinct needs , any attempt to discuss the language behaviour of Caribbeans in Britain will need to consider each community separately . |
| 16 | There are also a dozen or so whitish spots about half-pinhead size . |
| 17 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |
| 18 | Nor must I omit a dozen or so Turkish friends , whose friendship I was able to resume years later , above all Aziz and Ulviye Isvar and my closest Turkish friend — indeed one of my closest friends — Naci Ortaç , whose wife was the daughter of a Grand Vizier . |
| 19 | This has the same view as Philip Swallow 's , but is smaller — indeed , rather too small for all the furniture it contains : a desk , bookcases , filing cabinets , a table and a dozen or so unstacked stacking chairs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nightlife is informal , with a dozen or so quiet bars and about 15 restaurants offering delicious home made pasta dishes . |
| 22 | A dozen or so greenish boulders lurked with angular menace below . |
| 23 | Every day half a dozen or so old ladies leave a million pounds or more , generally widows whose major asset was a decent house in the South-east . |
| 24 | Try to catch a dozen or so adult ladybirds or larvae and place them in your aphid cage . |
| 25 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 26 | A dozen or so well-bred men in dark suits — some of them , noted Dyson with interest , wearing Brigade ties — were standing about drinking gin and smiling agreeably at each other 's jokes . |
| 27 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
| 28 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 29 | The same method using netting would make effective protection for a bed of a dozen or more high-yielding strawberry plants . |
| 30 | It has three Vermeers ( only 30 exist ) , notably Head of a Girl and View of Delft ( to Proust , the most beautiful painting in the world ) , a dozen jolly Steens , full of lasciviousness and coded morality , a dozen or more great Rembrandts , and Paulus Potter 's huge Young Bull . |