Example sentences of "[art] dozen [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that seems like faint praise , you should read the dozen most recent books on Paradise Lost . |
| 2 | Things abruptly changed with the solemn arrival of about a dozen ceremonially dressed adults , led by a tall , bony Tominah jangling with necklaces of crocodile teeth . |
| 3 | The Icknield Way in Hertfordshire actually consisted of at least half a dozen clearly defined and parallel lanes edged by contemporary fields , with other lanes crossing it at right angles . |
| 4 | Telling me off at work , I ai n't got a dozen yet . |
| 5 | We could get a couple of dozen now , I ai n't had a dozen yet ! |
| 6 | We have n't got anywhere near a dozen yet ! |
| 7 | Er a dozen please ? |
| 8 | But , assuming song-savvy still counts for anything , then the game 's already in the bag , since as well as ‘ Gasoline ’ there 's at least half a dozen similarly melancholic roars in this honest beast 's breast , including one titled — with disarming candour — ‘ Hüsker Dü FC ’ ! |
| 9 | 7 A girl bakes G cakes at school and a further 5 cakes at home , to make a dozen altogether . |
| 10 | ‘ There are a dozen equally good jobs she could walk into . ’ |
| 11 | The output of the growers is marshalled by half a dozen highly organised and professional marketers who have taken a huge slice of the market , including the multiples . |
| 12 | A deal was made which was of great benefit to both sides as Littler went on to present pantomimes for many years , sometimes as many as a dozen annually . |
| 13 | The riders , about a dozen so far , had gathered together in the middle . |
| 14 | ‘ It might have been a dozen so far as your conduct of the operations is concerned , ’ said one of Joyce 's companions . |
| 15 | At the bar half a dozen very grey old men sit and grimace at each other , saying absolutely nothing . |
| 16 | ‘ Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths ? ’ |
| 17 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 18 | Every day on Chelalo Haig-Thomas or I saw nyala , usually in small parties of cows and immature males ; I once counted a dozen together . |
| 19 | Bored with the formalities of mid-Victorian high society , often scornfully documented in her private diaries , she sought refuge in a form of neurasthenia and turned her hand to writing popular fiction , producing half a dozen still very readable novels which reflected her rebellious discontent with women 's role as second-class citizens in a world dominated by largely untalented men . |
| 20 | They use so much petrol on a taxi business they got she 's got about a dozen still I think . |
| 21 | ‘ See this little dragon brooch — there is n't a straight line in it , it 's composed of a dozen quite unnecessarily complex curves . |
| 22 | I 'm sure she has a dozen really pretty little formals she could have worn . ’ |
| 23 | Then he swabbed the body down with a sticky powder , which removed a dozen infinitely small particles stuck to the skin . |
| 24 | ‘ No , there were half a dozen there before me . ’ |
| 25 | He had quite a few , half a dozen there in the gunroom , with the light one he got for Neil as a boy , and I used to use . |
| 26 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 27 | About a dozen there . |
| 28 | half a dozen there , and there 's a dozen |
| 29 | you got a dozen though . |
| 30 | He must have to have about half a dozen though , must n't he ? |