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Example sentences for "dozen people"

  • The cousins seemed to assemble between them a great range of qualities which are never found united in one person and seldom in half a dozen people.

  • Don't be content to live with half a dozen people in a backwater all your life.

  • We found the choristers there in their white garments, and an audience of half a dozen people, and had time to look at the interior of the choir.

  • But how can anything characteristic be said or done among a dozen people sitting at table in full dress?

  • She was writing notes, inviting some half-dozen people to dinner, as had been arranged between them, but with a heavy and anxious heart, full of misgiving.

  • He cast a glance round upon the great room, which might have held a dozen people, and in his mind surveyed the echoing chambers above, of which but one was occupied.

  • But they were old friends whom she was inviting--only half a dozen people--and it was for his birthday.

  • There were more than a dozen people in that drawing-room, mostly women eating fine pastry and talking passionately.

  • But there are half a dozen people in the world with whom I would like to settle accounts.

  • He has scores to settle with half a dozen people, he says, and he clamours for revolutions to give him a chance.

  • She had a list of half a dozen people to whom he was never at home, and of the same number to whom he was always at home.

  • He asked the direction of the ballroom from half a dozen people before he could get a sober and intelligible answer.

  • Bacon is an extravagant article in housekeeping; there is often twice as much dressed as need be: when it is sent to table as an accompaniment to boiled poultry or veal, a pound and a half is plenty for a dozen people.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another individual; dark colour; dogmatic theology; dozen cloves; dozen feet; dozen large; dozen miles; dozen more; dozen other; dozen oysters; dozen paces; dozen people; dozen rods; dozen steps; dozen times; dozen words; dozen years; ferrous sulphate; human face; mediaeval literature; mighty monarch; national sovereignty; que era; silvery white; suffix beginning; years from