There are even a couple dozen in the cupboard space beneath the kitchen sink. |
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The black and twisted wreckage of at least a dozen vehicles lies in the bus station. |
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They fly in low, up to two dozen pairs at a time, always along the edge closest to the sun and always facing into the wind. |
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The poisoning of hounds forced half a dozen masters of packs of foxhounds to abandon hunting altogether, to the detriment of the local economy. |
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It has enough variety to please any telemarker with more than 3000 feet of vertical drop and a dozen lifts. |
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A dozen tourists wander through the colony, having arrived by Zodiac rubber raft from their cruise ship. |
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At least a dozen councils are yet to supply ballot packs to the Royal Mail ready for posting. |
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Bismarck has been described by historians as a political juggler who could keep swinging half a dozen balls in his hands simultaneously. |
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Today's anglers fishing for rainbow trout carry several boxes of fly patterns, but only use a dozen flies. |
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But with tears streaming down my face it was easy to jump the dozen places to the front of the taxi queue. |
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In Hobart, capital of the island state Tasmania, 500 students from a dozen different schools rallied in the city's Franklin Square. |
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The base of the trunk is pushed just four feet into the ground and secured with a dozen or more wooden wedges. |
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Every gun was proof tested and sent to the range for at least a dozen rounds of tuning before being sent out. |
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There are about 250 police officers from more than a dozen law enforcement agencies, from park rangers to FBI agents. |
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In recent weeks, the Daily Bugle has printed more than a dozen large advertisements for cigarettes. |
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For three nights in a row, a dozen of his men lay in ambush near where the source said the men would pass. |
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The horses of the dozen riders were lathered, as they galloped across the drawbridge and into the fortress. |
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Through the glass door to the step outside, two dozen yellowhammers and sparrows picked up seeds thrown on the snowy concrete. |
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In addition to fluid milk, it markets a wide range of organic dairy products including buttermilk, whipping cream and a dozen kinds of cheese. |
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Everything is on one floor, so from where I sit I can see the locker room, a small parlour area, and a whirlpool, which fits a dozen comfortably. |
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I was surrounded by at least a dozen baby kangaroos, wallabies, or koalas all my life. |
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I'm a 46-year-old Ohio river rat who's gone there half a dozen times to mountain bike and ski. |
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On this night a half dozen members get together to eat dinner and sing karaoke at his home. |
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The dozen delegates came from as far afield as China, the United States, Australia, Sweden and South Korea. |
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At one point, police cordoned off a city block after several dozen demonstrators jeered and razzed the incoming audience. |
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I've taken an even dozen whitetail and mule deer bucks at ranges from 20 meters to a full 80, all of which were one-shot kills. |
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Punishment for those involved was sharp and painful in receiving half a dozen strokes across the bared back with a stiff cane. |
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She swam eastward a dozen strokes and stood shivering on the rocky bottom, waiting for Wolf to surface. |
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Over a dozen foreign armies invaded Russia and joined up with reactionaries inside Russia in a civil war. |
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Structural welded wire reinforcement is produced by more than a dozen companies throughout North America. |
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You can, however, fit a few dozen large textbooks into a book reader the size of one paperback-a boon for medical students, for instance. |
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Fewer than a dozen of those whoopers continue to migrate with their adoptive parents, but none of them has yet produced offspring. |
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He winces when a dozen members of Company B are mistaken for a nest of rebels one night and are targeted for a U.S. air strike. |
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Even the shoeshine boys spoke half a dozen languages, from Greek and Turkish to Ladino. |
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At least a dozen wolves, including the pack's alpha male, rushed out and surrounded her. |
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After a dozen years at the latest, the two countries will both become part of the Mediterranean free trade zone. |
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About thirty or forty were injured, including more than a dozen elderly persons. |
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Oftentimes, I was amazed at his strength as he carried metal trays heavily laden with a dozen or more full 2 litre milk bottles. |
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Once at sea, cast your eyes aloft, there will be a dozen or more sailors swinging about in the rigging adjusting sails. |
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A dozen Queen Margaret's School, Escrick, students have been selected for the county's hockey and lacrosse teams. |
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A little while later some of the host's lackeys brought out about a dozen chooks in a long wire cage which they laid in the centre of the table. |
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At one time I had perhaps no more than a dozen turns of line left on the reel. |
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The population, divided into a dozen chiefdoms and supported by intensive agriculture, soon rose to 15,000 or more. |
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Only about a dozen homes surround the picture-book church, which is set amid rolling fields. |
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The old man followed her into the dark hall, where he was ambushed by several dozen rebels. |
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Unlike the Smiths, there were probably only a dozen men all told in this group. |
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These little plastic freaks have achieved quite a renaissance on the Web, with almost a dozen pages devoted to them. |
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Green blood pulsed into the water, half a dozen remoras dashed around in panic. |
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On a night dive we were met by several dozen massive tarpon, with remoras patrolling below the boat under the floodlights. |
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The Russell family have evidently spent a couple of dozen generations rapaciously buying pictures by the yard. |
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I squeaked in surprise, flinging my hand sideways and knocking half a dozen books off the shelf. |
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Half a dozen Canterbury players breathed a sigh of relief, then demanded apologies from all and sundry. |
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She was given a dozen encores and then the orchestra leader decided that enough was enough. |
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On such a stark platform, it isn't until half a dozen songs in that the band really comes alive. |
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We're busy spending quadrillions of dollars trying to find out if, like, a dozen microbes maybe once lived on Mars sometime in the ancient past. |
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By 1825 more than a dozen cabinetmakers and other woodworkers had established themselves in or near Huntsville alone. |
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A traditional raffle with a dozen prizes such as brace of pheasant, duck, woodcock or rabbit, was held to raise funds for new cages. |
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The bank is facing up to two dozen lawsuits from investors who claim they lost money by following its investment advice. |
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A dozen red roses will be a popular choice among men wanting to woo the woman in their life. |
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Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa and half a dozen other religious festivals occur. |
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Wandering into a shed one evening, he found a couple dozen goats being milked by a mechanism run by a pump. |
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This new recording features two dozen carols brought together to create a concert performance. |
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We told him of our catch and he gave us permission to use our landing net as a keep net for half a dozen fish for a photograph. |
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Half a dozen might make a novelty set of drinks coasters, but a million amounts to about 17 tons of landfill. |
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He was indicted in February on nearly three dozen counts of fraud and other crimes. |
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By the time of her death in 1581, Teresa had founded more than a dozen monastic houses. |
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During the first phase of the land war only half a dozen landlords and four land agents died from gunfire. |
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There are more than a half a dozen candidates for the presidency, so there is democracy of a kind. |
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A dozen girls in ruffled skirts stand, shifting their weight from foot to foot, gazing shyly at their reflections in the mirror. |
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The nearest people were five or six rows in front of me, and the pews across the aisle were empty for almost a dozen rows. |
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The government is now negotiating with a dozen banks to refinance the debt at rates it can afford. |
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We've had nine airlines go out of business in this country in the last dozen years. |
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More than a dozen of these model conferences are held annually across Canada. |
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The three dozen first-graders were a rowdy and wiggly bunch, almost as jumpy as some of the animals brought out for them to pet. |
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In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, a dozen states passed draconian anti-terrorism laws. |
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You may find yourself analyzing a long sentence with half a dozen unexplained ablatives left over at the end. |
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The hapu decided they would build their own waka, a canoe big enough to carry at least a dozen fishermen to sea. |
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In college, pursuing the zombie lifestyle, he washes down a dozen Quaaludes with Jack Daniels. |
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The next morning I awoke to the bellows, grunts and snorts of a dozen huge elephant seals wallowing on the black beach below the sleeping dongas. |
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This includes several dozen refugees from the former Yugoslavia who are on the books of an employment agency. |
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Around the tourmalines were a dozen more wall plates, including a fine quartz cluster weighing nearly 100 kilograms. |
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We quickly moved to the front of the ragged pack, a dozen or so wobbly tourists and a few real riders. |
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For a moment I toyed with presenting myself as a wanton temptress with a dozen regular gentlemen callers and a bedside drawer full of Mates. |
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At least a dozen music and dance styles, ranging from war dances to wedding music, fall under this spectrum. |
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There were colorful pareos, wrapped for wear in sundry ways by Tahitian women, who can get by with half a dozen as their entire wardrobe. |
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It was shortly after dinner time, so the wardroom had a dozen officers still lounging after their meals. |
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If only Australia did have a warring half dozen papers, each out to humiliate and bankrupt the other, how much better served we would be. |
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Clustered among the turning leaves were bilberries, cranberries, bog whortleberries, cloudberries and a dozen others, edible and poisonous. |
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He said that about a dozen warplanes had dropped bombs on the target, accompanied by support planes. |
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Their drummer seemed to be half asleep because he missed a dozen beats key beats that were supposed to accent the vocals. |
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The packing continues, as I once again go through the process of winnowing out the dross that I have collected over the past dozen or so years. |
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There could not have been more than 50 huts in all and a dozen or so single storey brick and mortar houses, overlooking the fields beyond. |
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The foundation has helped nearly a dozen earn accreditation since 1995, with money, mentoring, and plain old encouragement. |
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The group also acquired two prestigious watering holes among a dozen pubs and hotels earlier this year. |
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He grows several dozen crops, including artichokes, shallots, watermelons, garlic, and many types of greens. |
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Neither above nor below the water, two or three dozen water striders worked an old miracle. |
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A toddler is believed to have choked to death on a jelly sweet linked to more than a dozen deaths around the world. |
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He kills almost a dozen Greek captains and the Achaean line begins to flee. |
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The concept alone is offensive in at least half a dozen different ways, so you have to admire the sheer gall of the Media Lunch team. |
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Five players were permanently blinded and a dozen more had permanent eye defects leading to reduced vision. |
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The council consists of around a dozen senior fellows, headed by the college master. |
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The speedy winger jinked and swerved through a dozen pairs of hands before touching down. |
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For every person like this, there are probably a dozen or more false teachers flying under the media's radar. |
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The old man's platter had a slices of kingklip, succulent tender scallops and half a dozen tiger prawns done to perfection with savoury rice on the side. |
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Clambering up the west ridge, I got knocked flat a dozen times. |
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Arsonists wrecked a dozen cars at a scrapyard in Bolton last night. |
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By either estimate, the defective switch cost Amy Rademaker and at least a dozen other people their lives. |
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Then, one warm summer day, Andrew and Abby were found hacked to death more than a dozen times with an ax. |
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Rangers might have run in half a dozen had Michael Mols and Shota Arveladze's finishing been better, and they had two goals disallowed and hit the woodwork twice. |
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The study weighed more than a dozen factors to see which were causing the divergence in mortality rates. |
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At least a dozen times over the past two years I've heard the sickening thud and tortured tire screech that signals a fresh wreck in the intersection. |
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During the dozen years or so since the R2P concept was formulated, its application has been complicated and ad hoc. |
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During 1999 and early 2000, he worked as a volunteer advance man for more than a dozen of the politician's town hall meetings in New Hampshire and South Carolina. |
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Where citrus County felt like a coiled spring, the pace of A Million Heavens is sedate, diffused among a dozen or so characters. |
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There seemed to be only a half dozen corporate publishing houses left. |
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Just over a dozen years ago, amadou Diallo was shot at 41 times by police officers who mistook his wallet for a gun. |
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While half a dozen trips from Lisbon back to Angola since 2003 have given this exile a renascent interest in his roots, this is not quite an ethnic homecoming. |
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It was frantic back when 12 dailies hit the New York streets with half a dozen editions each. |
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A dozen revolutionary Guards were caught deep inside Pakistan, tracking Rigi. |
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It uses all the languages of South Africa, running subtitles in English when cast members break into Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Afrikaans, Tswana or any of a dozen other tongues. |
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Taken as a whole, however, Plaza Suite still offers some great entertainment and laughs, including a dozen or so wonderful zingers shot off by the late, great Walter Matthau. |
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They subsequently obtained a search warrant and discovered more than four dozen more. |
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A dozen priests took the offer, according to documents released when the archdiocese of Milwaukee filed for bankruptcy. |
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He and a dozen other Alisal Guest Ranch wranglers have only a couple of hours to catch and saddle 63 horses for guests going on this morning's breakfast ride. |
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Approximately two shot glasses of ethanol could yield enough hydrogen to generate 350 watt-hours of electricity, enough to power half a dozen 60-watt lightbulbs for an hour. |
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Even so, the dozen U.S. warships on station were the biggest contingent in this Armada. |
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The engine, baggage car, coach, and chair car fell into the creek, claiming 96 lives and leaving only two dozen alive. |
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Inside, it seemed hopeless, for every chair in sight was occupied, and a dozen men were asleep on the floor. |
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David Cay Johnston lists a dozen possible solutions, from building seawalls to getting tough on att. |
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After a dozen years of serving as Texas attorney general, Greg Abbott prides himself on knowing the law. |
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The girls say the auto body yard, otherwise filled with more than a dozen men of all ages, is a welcoming environment. |
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By the end of that year you could plug a Windows system into the Internet and be infected with a dozen worms before you even had a chance to download the latest updates. |
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With less than a dozen toilets in the entire community, poor sanitation fuels high rates of malaria and lethal cases of diarrhea. |
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A dozen movies far superior to Dogtooth or Outside the Law were bewilderingly overlooked. |
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Data from organic farming, appropriate technology, agroforestry, soil science, aquaculture, and a dozen other disciplines all support the techniques organized by permaculture. |
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For every Clint Dempsey willing to play with a broken nose, there seem to be a dozen floppers a la Cristiano Ronaldo. |
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I work as a bookseller, so I have a dozen of these in my back pocket at all times. |
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He ran the same kind of campaign against brat that he ran a dozen years earlier against Jones, relying on negative ads and mail. |
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The presence of the dozen or so cardboard boxes was hard to miss. |
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Smart's parents deserve a dozen sharp raps on the head, as well. |
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They followed the road for a couple of hours, then, after they had gone about a dozen miles, they veered off of it and into the woods for another four or five miles. |
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Looters and vandals damaged more than a dozen stores and businesses in Oakland, Calif., news reports said. |
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A dozen people have died of bird flu in Vietnam since December 30, raising concerns that the disease could be re-emerging after an outbreak last year in 10 Asian countries. |
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More than two dozen electric and steam locomotives along with hundreds of dump cars were required to remove about 37 million cubic yards of material. |
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He failed to show up for a scheduled walkabout at the London Stock Exchange this week, leaving half a dozen of his candidates to get drenched by a thunderstorm. |
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The rambling old beach house had a dozen or more rooms, attics, walk-in closets with hidden panels and a widow's walk that gave a view of the ocean. |
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They walked in silence until we came to Broadway, where a dozen or so police officers were dispersing a crowd of some sort. |
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The precious cargo of two dozen gutta-perch balls, three woods, three irons and a putter arrived at the doorstep of John Reid's new home in Yonkers not a day too soon. |
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On average, each tiny serving of coleslaw or potato salad packs around 300 calories and more than a dozen grams of fat. |
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Survivors were rushed to the nearby hospital, while more than a dozen bodies were laid out in the hospital garden with their faces covered by cardboard. |
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There are four dwellings to choose from and more than a half dozen other structures in which to swing a cat. |
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Thirty-four years ago, America elected Ronald Reagan as president, and sent a dozen Democratic senators to an early retirement. |
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As I stepped into the main building that housed Unit C, an earsplitting siren blared suddenly and a dozen strobes flashed. |
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On the other corner, a dozen or so balloons are tied to a pole. |
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Line a flat work surface with parchment and lay out a dozen crepes. |
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The next COAS will come from the shadowy group of a dozen corps commanders who run the Army. |
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When I employed over a dozen employees, most drank my Kool-Aid. |
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Nine years ago, he and a dozen sports medicine doctors formed the academy to promote anti-aging treatments and to learn more about the long-term effects. |
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Here was a formidable antiquarian and linguist, fluent in classical and romance languages, as well as Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Aramaic, Anglo-Saxon, and a half dozen others. |
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They broke off into groups of a dozen and got to work collecting bricks and salvageable materials from the rubble. |
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Thihicarm armories have their works here, the best in a dozen kingdoms. |
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Pocklington were without half a dozen key players due to injury and unavailability and they left a dry and sunny Pocklington to find Ilkley rainswept and waterlogged. |
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More than a dozen years ago, the Department of Justice began a landmark racketeering case against the tobacco industry. |
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In all the submissions, they found four papers that were clearly worth publishing and another dozen almosts. |
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The ang pao contains so many dozen pesos, because a dozen is a lucky number. |
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That is to say, if I do not take care, I shall go on calling my darling 'Baba' till she is as old as her mamma, and has a dozen Babas of her own. |
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The star is Jorge Negrete, a tall baritone with a pencil mustache who appeared as a singing charro in a few dozen ranchero musicals. |
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Today we have a dozen chickenless counties, and if fires are not checked in the peat lands, we shall end with a chickenless state. |
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Many people who consider themselves to be liberally educated have undertaken study in half a dozen fields from a Chinese menu of subjects. |
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Some of these cimices are extremely pretty, but if handled emit their disagreeable perfume. I have met with about a dozen species of these bugs. |
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The settlement is circumvallated by a stake-fence, so decayed that one may gain ingress at a dozen places. |
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Besides, a video post room's console is smaller than those used for film, and you couldn't squander a dozen or more channels on dialog. |
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We found those hens, dozens it seemed, and half a dozen cocks, not counting the ones that we doglessly walked past. |
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The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
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The children began to sing draggingly. Half a dozen carried the first verse through alone. |
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Maybe a few dozen hours of collective neofans, all reading him fanzine press at once, would cure him of these paternal instincts. |
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Corrugated-steel ceilings, a dozen blue-felted pool tables and DJ house music Thursday to Saturday. |
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Mayer made over a dozen fuzz boxes for Hendrix, using several different designs customized to the sound Hendrix wanted. |
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I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence. |
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Up and down the corridors, the dozen staircases, through the whole Gormenghastian maze. |
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Hence it was that a few dozen policemen, resolutely grasping the nettle, had no difficulty in handling it. |
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About a dozen species have been recorded since 1980, but only three are seen fairly often. |
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A dozen boys, roughly half the class, raised their hands and began discussing their hooptees. |
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A half dozen other negroes, some limping and all scared, were humping it across a meadow. |
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In 896, he ordered the construction of a small fleet, perhaps a dozen or so longships that, at 60 oars, were twice the size of Viking warships. |
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He started back two or three paces, rapt out a dozen interjectural oaths, and asked what the devil had brought you here? |
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Decisions about company names and product names and their relationship depends on more than a dozen strategic considerations. |
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John Maynard Keynes was one of about three dozen bidders who obtained part of the collection at auction. |
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Babbage developed some two dozen programs for the Analytical Engine between 1837 and 1840, and one program later. |
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Classes of a dozen or so society members under a leader met weekly for spiritual fellowship and guidance. |
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Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren. |
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In addition, there are a few dozen colleges and other institutes of higher learning, as well as about a dozen foreign university extensions. |
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More than thirty recordings have been made of the First Symphony since 1955, for example, and more than a dozen of The Dream of Gerontius. |
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These were her first public singing performances in a dozen years, due to her failed vocal cord surgery. |
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Membership was restricted to the proprietors or shareholders, and ranged from a dozen or two to between four and five hundred. |
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The fields for these events include the top several dozen golfers from all over the world. |
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Initially, the new escort groups consisted of two or three destroyers and half a dozen corvettes. |
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Having taken the airfield with a dozen casualties, the remainder of the battalion flew in by helicopter. |
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Of the dozen or so smaller producers Rover and Jaguar were strong niche producers. |
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On 15 June 2015, Reuters reported that Airbus was discussing a stretched version of the A380 with a half dozen customers. |
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I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter. |
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From 1951 to 1952, he toured Ireland with the Anew McMaster repertory company, playing over a dozen roles. |
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One series in Glasgow was scheduled for a dozen plays but proved so popular they eventually had over a hundred. |
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The orchestra remains the principal orchestra of the Proms, giving about a dozen concerts each season, including the first and last nights. |
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By the end of 1889, almost a dozen GAA clubs existed in America, many of them in and around New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago. |
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There are about a dozen important commercial airports and many more general aviation airports throughout the state. |
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David founded more than a dozen new monasteries in his reign, patronising various new monastic orders. |
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Above them stood a dozen or so synods and at the apex the general assembly. |
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Over the course of a little more than 400 years, Berwick had changed hands more than a dozen times. |
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During two weeks in Spring several dozen carefully selected films are screened. |
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Offa's diplomatic relations with Europe are well documented, but appear to belong only to the last dozen years of his reign. |
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At that time, as well as shipwrights, New Quay had half a dozen blacksmith shops, three sail makers, three ropewalks and a foundry. |
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Prior to the notpology, at least half a dozen companies had pulled their ads from the show. |
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Into the 1800s, Cairnryan was an important staging post on the coach route to Ayr, with half a dozen inns along this short stretch of coast. |
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Organisms from more than a dozen families took part in consuming the carcass. |
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Most species nest in colonies, which can vary in size from a few dozen birds to millions. |
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Only a dozen or so were taken by British Columbian stations, nearly all of them in 1953 at Coal Harbour. |
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By the end of 2008, at least 15 Chinese companies were commercially producing wind turbines and several dozen more were producing components. |
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Each of the several dozen surviving manuscripts features a unique set of errors, corrections, content and organization. |
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About a dozen single rats enter Alberta in an average year and are killed by provincial rat control specialists before they can reproduce. |
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In the former Soviet Union, up to 300 animal and a few dozen plant species are known to be consumed by them. |
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Red deer mating patterns usually involve a dozen or more mating attempts before the first successful one. |
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The man who can string the bow and shoot it through a dozen axe heads would win. |
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A dozen bullfights are held each year, attracting the biggest names in bullfighting. |
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The blue jay was having a fit, and the sapsucker perked his bright-eyed little head at him not more than a dozen feet away. |
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Inside was a clutter of prescription pads and a carton containing a collection of diamorphine syrettes and a dozen ampoules of pethidine. |
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Before large scale mechanization arrived in the 1950s, keeping a dozen milk cows for the sale of milk was profitable. |
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Two dozen nations sent delegations, and there were many nongovernmental groups, but the defeated powers were not invited. |
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The SNA supplies almost all Swiss media and a couple dozen foreign media services with its news. |
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British explorer James Cook, who had been the first to map the North Atlantic island of Newfoundland, spent a dozen years in the Pacific Ocean. |
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This cycle is repeated several dozen times to generate DNA sequence information for each polony. |
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The treasure fleet probably made use of several dozen of the treasure ships which was accompanied by half a dozen support vessels each. |
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Morocco has more than four dozen universities, institutes of higher learning, and polytechnics dispersed at urban centres throughout the country. |
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Milan had no fewer than a dozen hospitals and Florence before the end of the fourteenth century had some thirty hospitals. |
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There are about a dozen museums or collections in Jeddah, with varied educational aims and professionalism. |
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Here some dozen documents dated 2400 BC describe lands of the king and the queen. |
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But with FF seat losses by the dozen all over the country, the Portillo moments were stacked on several levels, like a good tin of biscuits. |
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Bloomberg Markets magazine ranked the top 20 based on more than a dozen criteria. |
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There have been pilot programs in about a dozen of the over 1,400 public schools aimed at conducting instruction in English only. |
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At Nakbe, there are at least a dozen examples of triadic complexes and the four largest structures in the city are triadic in nature. |
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It was the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system of more than a dozen systems that developed in Mesoamerica. |
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Up the rivers of the eastern coastal plain lived about a dozen tribes of Siouan background. |
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About a dozen separate small tribes summered on the coast harvesting oysters and fish, and cultivating corn, peas and beans. |
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As Maine entered the 18th century, only a half dozen European settlements had survived. |
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At this time Russia consisted of a dozen or so principalities, which were frequently at war with one another. |
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On the 25th a dozen men from the Halve Maen, using muskets and small cannon, went ashore and assaulted the village near their anchorage. |
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Millie was one of the dozen or so pros who had a house at the top of the street. |
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Contemporary distinct indigenous groups survive in populations ranging from only a few dozen to hundreds of thousands and more. |
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The following year, about a dozen new shoots form from the roots, replacing those that were cut. |
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The printing press spread within several decades to over two hundred cities in a dozen European countries. |
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Psephocracy on the British model has been extended, thanks to the advice of British psephocrats, to a couple of dozen nations. |
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England, meanwhile, could only build a dozen ships, due to financial difficulties. |
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When I suggested it, he promptly rattled off a dozen reasons that it wouldn't work. |
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The dyeing process often requires several dozen gallons of water for each pound of clothing. |
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A small electric truck was used to handle 150 dozen bottles at a time where previously a hand truck would carry 6 dozen. |
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The Ruhr River is only one of half a dozen rivers in the Ruhr district, in addition to the Rhine. |
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I can run that remark of Alec's through my ears a dozen times now and find no particular reason for it to be rilesome. |
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Approximately 4 to 7 white eggs are found in a typical clutch, but clutch size can reach up to a dozen eggs in years when voles are abundant. |
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I shoehorned his dozen burgeoning bags into the backseat of my tiny car, and off we went. |
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Our short dozen of Aristophanic dramas may be taken to represent the fittest among the hundreds of other comedies which have perished. |
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He had shouted down at least one judge in the Mairie de Luxembourg after a dozen cigars had failed to bring about his ends. |
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English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th century battle against the Spanish Armada. |
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They are streetworkers, gang outreach specialists employed by the city of Boston. There are about two dozen of them. |
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There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard. |
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The first order of business upon arrival was to select a pair of tapochki from the dozen or so scattered in messy stacks about the foyer. |
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The box was set down, the stiff buckles of its mildewed straps tackled by a dozen thumby hands, the lid hurled back. |
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But the high point was probably the first day of the trip, when we were on a mountainside opposite the roost of half a dozen Andean condors. |
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There were only about a dozen officers in the great wardroom, six of them in the khaki gabardine working uniform of the U.S. Navy. |
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Our dozen cabin passengers sorely put to wits' end to pass yesterday without cards in observance of the Sabbath. |
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The field was then laid to grass and after a dozen years could be woaded again. |
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Add to them the perennial weeds such as dandelion, dock, clover, creeping woodsorrel and six dozen more. |
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C administrator in the early 1950s and nearly three dozen photographs of work camp scenes, gatherings, and reunions. |
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In a market which has witnessed nearly half a dozen crises, quantum jumps of index often make the diehard players jittery. |
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Jaysus, a man with his talents is wasted in a game that only has half a dozen counties that can play it. |
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A survey of a dozen chemists and druggists in India has revealed that herbal aphrodisiacs are in great demand after alcohol consumption. |
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The false claim is one of at least a dozen coloring the narrative. |
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More than a dozen cranes still looked down on the Kaaba, as seen here, as the hajj got underway. |
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All the same, I set to work and copied half a dozen of them. |
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A dozen types of trees will be planted, including American Hophornbeam, Honey Locust, Kentucky Coffeetree, and Quaking Aspen. |
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Participants in the survey were from a dozen different ethnic groups, including Chinese, Filipino, and Asian Indian. |
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As Endeavour shuffled by crowds, its age was evident after 123 million miles in space and two dozen re-entries. |
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Wong likes to dawdle for months over reshoots and reedits, but To directs, supervises, or executive-produces half a dozen projects each year. |
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Earlier in the day, police resorted to lathicharge, in which at least two dozen people sustained serious injuries. |
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More than two dozen lines of diseased mice have now been destroyed. |
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There are half a dozen more competitions during the year including the entertaining Surf 'n' Panga Roosterfish Classic. |
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Lobster pots are usually dropped to the sea floor about a dozen at a time, and are marked by a buoy so they can be picked up later. |
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They sat among the choiring clepsydras of the evening garden, time elapsing in a dozen ways, allowing their cigars to go out, keeping a companionable silence. |
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There are less than a dozen practising acupuncturists in the Huddersfield area but it's a complementary therapy that most people know something about. |
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More engaging in her exhibit are a series of larger globes, each one aswirl with pumped-in glitter and each one containing a half dozen glass vials. |
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Among the young pandas she's following, Atlanta's two plus a dozen at Chengdu, Snyder so far finds slight differences between the early, and late weaners. |
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The hand-held solution included over a dozen wireless-enabled transactions tailored for Wawa from Catalyst's extensive library of transaction templates. |
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Police detained a dozen supporters and clamped prohibitory orders, banning the gathering of more than four people in the area where the guru's ashram is located. |
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It is unusual to find galaxies so close to the Milky Way, yet Vela offers a dozen or more NGC galaxies in the eastern extreme of the constellation, spilling over into Antlia. |
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In every place where there are half a dozen houses is planted an unthriving tree of liberty, which seems to wither under the baneful influence of the bonnet rouge. |
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Choose from a dozen caption typestyles to give your messages variety. |
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Chrysippus said that some Philosophers would in open view of all men shew a dozen of tumbling-tricks, yea, without any slops or breeches, for a dozen of olives. |
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Tim Henman, now thirty years old and never a champion, is the only top ten serve-volleyer, and less than a dozen top 100 players frequently do it. |
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With the Harmony remote, there's no need to juggle remote controls or press a dozen buttons to set up a TV, home-theater receiver, and Xbox 360 for gaming. |
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He is made up of a dozen people and the greater part of him is myself. |
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True carnivory is thought to have evolved independently nine times in five different orders of flowering plants, and is represented by more than a dozen genera. |
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