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  • We decamped to Porters, as usual, and took over half a dozen tables or so to drink the night away.
  • You may find yourself analyzing a long sentence with half a dozen unexplained ablatives left over at the end.
  • Bernice lay contentedly at the edge of a sand embankment white as driven snow, her chin cupped in her hands, watching half a dozen or more mullets drift and swing in the limpid clear water below. The Mystery at Number Six
  • The vessel is surrounded by half a dozen American warships but no moves have been made to board it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Soon the guard - about half a dozen soldiers and NCOs in all - marched out with an extremely rapid step and exaggerated movements; they came to a halt with a massive goose-step.
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  • THE former Kop boss gets half a dozen of his biggest pals together in a room to ask them to be ushers at his wedding. The Sun
  • Half a dozen creatures'manlike except for the snakiest necks either had ever seen-came thundering along the corridor, waving spears and shouting. Fortress Of Frost And Fire
  • I counted half a dozen chrysalises outside this morning, and those caterpillars may take months to complete the metamorphosis because of the cold weather, but because of the warm, cozy conditions this one's found, I expect it to emerge as a beautiful Gulf fritillary butterfly sometime within the next two weeks. Archive 2009-12-01
  • For a smaller investor, half a dozen may suffice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Conservatives in the judiciary shut these publications, beginning in April, and jailed at least half a dozen editors and commentators.
  • The machine had some other features to increase the complexity: There was a plugboard to further scramble the letters, and the machine came equipped with half a dozen or so rotors, of which 3 (later 4) were inserted at any one time. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • The first big winter storm will often deposit half a dozen boats (often with their inadequate moorings still attached) on the beach.
  • Stew the apples in a little water till they become a pulp, placing with them half a dozen cloves and half a dozen strips of the yellow part only of the outside of the rind of a _fresh_ lemon of the size and thickness of the thumb-nail; sweeten with brown sugar, that known as Porto Rico being the most economical. Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
  • Their thirty and forty - thousand-ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles offshore and maneuvered in ponderous evolutions, while tiny scout-boats (lean, six-funneled destroyers) ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks. Goliah
  • Across the street, half a dozen guys spilled out of a yuppie bar, two of them mouthing off at each other, the others watching. NEW YORK DEAD
  • I squeaked in surprise, flinging my hand sideways and knocking half a dozen books off the shelf.
  • In the middle of last decade, when Tom Delay and state Republican leaders redrew the Texas state map in a way that removed half a dozen Democratic seats, they didn't touch the minority districts already in place. Dylan Loewe: Debunking the Redistricting Myth
  • He has had at least half a dozen. Times, Sunday Times
  • And then the curtains parted to reveal the hotel's roofdeck, where a half a dozen gorgeous women in highly-experimental bikinis were sunning and oiling themselves and each other.
  • She pushed half a dozen more upon his plate. Bomber
  • Patrick said John started the fight, but I think it was probably six of one and half a dozen of the other.
  • More than half a dozen England cricket captains were there. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are still half a dozen to write home about. Times, Sunday Times
  • On some farms, where there might be half a dozen land girls working and living together in the farmhouse or billeted in nearby hostels, these were happy, sociable years.
  • 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.
  • Half a dozen trips from Lisbon back to Angola have given this exile a renascent interest in his roots.
  • Half a dozen elderly men with huge trousers and big braces watched avidly, but with little emotion.
  • Barely able to focus after half a dozen yards of frozen marguerita, you stumble across a stand selling sound effects CDs. EBay of the Day: Loads of gun noises on a CD
  • Emailer Walt sends a link to this site, which is claiming (in Farsi) that she saw half a dozen hit by gunfire. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 15)
  • He has half a dozen acres, with six llamas in a paddock: possibly the only llamas in the Creuse. Dead Right « Tales from the Reading Room
  • He sat with half a dozen pals around a circular table on the upper floor. The Sun
  • It six of one and half a dozen of the other.
  • On such a stark platform, it isn't until half a dozen songs in that the band really comes alive.
  • `This contains copies of half a dozen pages of coded text with the corresponding pages of decoded text. CODE BREAKER
  • There were only half a dozen Footsie constituents giving ground. Times, Sunday Times
  • The half a dozen or so "raisers" in Tinseltown -- established Democratic figures such as Barbra Streisand, Haim Saban and Westwood One chairman Norm Pattiz -- are hardly exclusive in their support. Leading Man
  • The apiary was nearby; half a dozen hives faced south down the slope.
  • I drank close to a bottle of Chablis the other day while they hammered away fruitlessly at half a dozen natives.
  • I can't tell whether he or she is to blame it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.
  • Half a dozen companies have built the design since production began in 1940; earlier examples were rag-winged, later ones metal.
  • Glancing briefly at the public gallery, the Prime Minister's wife noted the presence of about half a dozen journalists - unusual for a low profile trial - but appeared nonplussed by the media interest.
  • The apiary was nearby; half a dozen hives faced south down the slope.
  • Within ten seconds half a dozen Russian riflemen were writhing in the sand. KARA KUSH
  • Baiting with corn, he bagged half a dozen carp, with fish up to 7lb, for his 25 lb 12 oz.
  • 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.
  • Half a dozen long spears were thrust rather tremulously through the gridwork. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • He had these walking sticks with him, half a dozen of them, the wood all beautifully carved. HIGH STAND
  • Below in the glittering blue Pacific half a dozen dolphins were playing in the surf, skimming in just below the face of the breakers then flipping out over the crest as the wave broke.
  • There are about half a dozen types of tiles in the game, each of which is scored differently.
  • On one of these pleasant outposts was the college camp; and half a dozen pretty girl graduates, in "middies" and khaki skirts, came down to meet Killykinick
  • Her mother had been down at the shops and snapped up half a dozen buns for elevenses.
  • Bees have half a dozen aerial dances to indicate where to find nectar.
  • He is joined by half a dozen oily men, and delivers a blistering dance routine in which he moonwalks.
  • Half a dozen soldiers in leather and chain mail hauberks and coifs formed a semicircle around them, hands on the swords sheathed at their hips.
  • As my eyes adjusted to the gloom I recognized Catulus, Piso, Torquatus, and Lepidus, with the folds of their togas pressed to their noses, and also the short and broad figure of the state executioner, the carnifex, in his leather apron, attended by half a dozen assistants. CONSPIRATA
  • A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar.
  • Perhaps half a dozen were Hispanic, and the rest, black.
  • Indeed, I can recall occasions when half a dozen of the heftier members of the Council were deputed to escort a minister into and out of the hall.
  • Sketches were thumbtacked to the walls; partially finished paintings stood on half a dozen easels. Rot & Ruin
  • However, there were half a dozen properties nearby where Ted had fitted conservatories. KICK BACK
  • She emerged from the door to see Oracle unfolding a napkin on the rickety table between the chairs, a napkin holding half a dozen buttery scones. A Plague of Angels
  • Up to half a dozen may break the barrier.
  • Rare is the production these days that lets critics in without the benefit of at least half a dozen previews.
  • One monkey in the 8000 range took a liking to the name Oberon and typed it half a dozen times. The Infinite Monkey Theorem
  • Write half a dozen folios full of other people's ideas (as all folios are pretty sure to be), and you serve as ballast to the lower shelves of a library, about as like to be disturbed as the kentledge in the hold of a ship. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • Inside, there were half a dozen crude pallets arranged about the remains of a small fire.
  • Bees have half a dozen aerial dances to indicate where to find nectar.
  • It was a small one, with stallage for only half a dozen animals, but soundly built. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • Pennant, tagged "the most expensive teenager in English football" after his move from Notts County to Arsenal a dozen years ago, could be found half a dozen years later wearing a tag of a very different kind in Birmingham City's matches while on probation from a jail term following a drink-driving conviction. The lost boys rescued from wilderness years | Richard Williams
  • Santley was a true pantophagist, but he was worsted in his first encounter with the American oyster: "I had often heard of the celebrated American oyster, which half a dozen people had tried to swallow without success, and was anxious to learn if the story were founded on fact. The Merry-Go-Round
  • This contest is wide open: any of half a dozen teams could win it.
  • More than half a dozen species of birds have come to roost, which include black-winged stilts, cattle and little egrets, little stints, common sandpipers, pond herons and little winged plovers.
  • Half a dozen sailors jumped him.
  • Across the street, half a dozen guys spilled out of a yuppie bar, two of them mouthing off at each other, the others watching. NEW YORK DEAD
  • The art scene has died and been reborn half a dozen times. Times, Sunday Times
  • The judgments in the table below should not be taken too seriously, as they represent only my memory of the answers given by perhaps half a dozen informants, all of whom were American students or faculty.
  • I was doing quite nicely on my half a dozen beers and it's amazing how three small glasses of champagne have so much alcohol content in them.
  • The program for ‘Resolutions’ was developed cooperatively, beginning with a meeting in early 1994 between Chicago and a core group of half a dozen needleworkers who assembled in her studio in Albuquerque.
  • I've also made a lot of lithographs, and I've written and illustrated half a dozen books about countries and cities.
  • Half a dozen parrots cut a brilliant green streak across our bonnet before disappearing into the looming darkness ahead.
  • To understand the contents would probably take half a dozen accountants six months of reading, so what chance have we mere mortals got?
  • A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar.
  • A longtime bookmaking hub, the Bay Area for years has been home to more than half a dozen small bookbinderies. Digital Rivals, Economy Put Bookmakers in Bind
  • This contest is wide open: any of half a dozen teams could win it.
  • I keep half a dozen pond mongrels in a tank, and every one is dear to me.
  • A soccer match turns on the outcome of half a dozen passages of play.
  • Half a dozen farm-estates formed a hectagon around it, but these belonged to ancient men who displayed themselves only as inert, gray-thatched lumps in the back of limousines on their way to the station, whither they were sometimes accompanied by equally ancient and doubly massive wives. The Beautiful and Damned
  • I didn't realize this event was dry until I downed half a dozen mocktails.
  • For a smaller investor, half a dozen may suffice. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the mollah calls to prayers from the minaret of a humble mosque; and in a dark corner illumined by aslant rays from a small high window in a wall, teaches to some half a dozen urchins the strange Arabic letters and the chants of the Koran. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
  • 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.
  • In the box was half a dozen books on German philosophy (in German), twenty books on artificial intelligence and "whither" computers, and another fifty books or so with such arcane titles as Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village. Daniel Krotz: Third Wave Feminism
  • Half a dozen straight-back chairs, also "boughten," were disposed stiffly against the walls. Southern Lights and Shadows
  • Three times a day, behind a wall of four-inch-thick plate-glass, half a dozen mermaids - and the occasional merman - jive and pirouette in the world's only underwater spring theatre.
  • And then, but that half a dozen at once endeavoured to keep down her violent hands, would she have beaten herself; as it seems she had often attempted to do from the time the surgeon popt out the word mortification to her. Clarissa Harlowe
  • As well as broadcasters in the commentary boxes there will be half a dozen radio engineers carrying backpacks within a half a mile radius accompanying the presenters to broadcast the reaction of the crowds on the ground.
  • The participants hail from half a dozen states and they are in San Francisco for a week long boatbuilding class.
  • Many of the contributors refer to statistical sources naturally, and the volume itself supplies half a dozen tables and graphs. The Times Literary Supplement
  • And imagine his horror when he shuffled into the consultant's room to be confronted by a genial man flanked by half a dozen female medical students. The Sun
  • On my first trip to the pub I am reminded how half a dozen pints can reduce dazzling intellectuals to burbling halfwits.
  • I keep half a dozen pond mongrels in a tank, and every one is dear to me.
  • Mazarin's numerous nieces, and the opera, that new importation from Italy, which the Cardinal was bringing into fashion; while in the remote past of half a dozen years back the Fronde was the only interesting subject, and even that was worn threadbare; the adventures of the Duchess, the conduct of the Prince in prison, the intrigues of Cardinal and Queen, Mademoiselle, yellow-haired Beaufort, duels of five against five -- all -- all these were ancient history as compared with young Louis and his passion for Marie de London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
  • Across the street, half a dozen teenage boys hunch over a broken bicycle.
  • After a little Dizziness, and confused Hurry of Thought, which a Man often meets with in a Dream, methoughts the Hall was alarm'd, the Doors flew open, and there entered half a dozen of the most hideous Phantoms that I had ever seen (even in a Dream) before that Time. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
  • Half a dozen nurses, trousered and jacketed in the regulation white viscose-linen uniform, their hair aseptically hidden under white caps, were engaged in setting out bowls of roses in a long row across the floor. Brave New World
  • I was all nice and toasty in a warm and fluffy bed, surrounded by half a dozen blankets and a plump pillow.
  • Attached to a branch of a tree were half a dozen green and yellow plastic water containers that provided a splash of colour in the bright, dust coloured landscape.
  • Half a dozen mass graves have been unearthed, but no sign of the trainee teachers has been found. Times, Sunday Times
  • inside there was a punnet of rather soft strawberries sitting on top of a carton of half a dozen eggs.
  • Right now my current nemesis is a pea-brained asshat who has put all 11 books of the Vampire Files up on half a dozen sites. Heartsick, depressed, and PO'd as hell.
  • I have got half a dozen great slow, huge songs, but I kind of get bored of playing them live.
  • In front of the police station near my hotel I counted 34 wrecked cars at the side of the road and from the abundant rust it was clear some had been there for at least half a dozen years.
  • He proposed half a dozen accords in such areas as culture, post and communications.
  • There were half a dozen in the boiler room, he discovered, so take three.
  • A marimba group is made up of half a dozen musicians, two of them playing large, wooden marimbas, which resemble xylophones.
  • Great entertainers are treated shabbily, while callow, shallow twerps land their own series after half a dozen gigs.
  • We buy a crumbling house, invite half a dozen builders in to demolish its interior walls - then grumble about the stour, the noise and the unsightly skip in the garden.
  • This will be a male choir which will meet on a Thursday evening in St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, for sung Latin Vespers and rehearsal with half a dozen chanted Masses spread among the deaneries each year. Archive 2009-01-01
  • A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar.
  • By the 1890s, there were half a dozen transcontinental railways.
  • There's at least half a dozen anthems in their set, which with a live drummer could be difficult to contain.
  • It need not frighten you; it is a nothing of a part, a mere nothing, not above half a dozen speeches altogether, and it will not much signify if nobody hears a word you say, so you may be as creepmouse as you like, but we must have you to look at. Mansfield Park
  • France be so kind as to order me one half a dozen tombour worked Muslin hankerchiefs, 4 Ells Book Muslin, one pound of white threads, 12 Ells of light crimson caliminco with a peice of coarse cambrick and any light wollen stuff that will answer for winter gowns, half a dozen coulourd plumes and a small Box of flowers for Miss Nabby at her request to her pappa. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 April 1781
  • But any rate, I was on the radio; I get a half a dozen calls berating me about Professor Passion for Truth
  • Half a dozen of them dragged me out into the muddied field where my wife's clothes were strewn. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • Half a dozen people have been by, pushing one thing or another on me—pasta salad, a baked ham, profiteroles, and pets, too. Siamese fighting fish, hamsters, kittens.
  • About half of the 20 young women are otherwise engaged in the Champagne Room, a dim, closet-size space that holds half a dozen couples.
  • He carried a shield, battleaxe, sword, and machine gun in his arms, plus half a dozen other secondary weapons.
  • The Collector and half a dozen Sikhs were still managing to hold the door into the drawing-room, but only just.
  • The next stop was Lake City, -- a name illustrative of Californian megalomania; for the lake, long since gone dry, was merely an artificial reservoir to supply a neighboring mine, and the city was a collection of half a dozen buildings including a store and a hotel. Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California
  • He proposed half a dozen accords in such areas as culture, post and communications.
  • 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.
  • Half a dozen people accepted his invitation and coins chinked in his cup. A Funeral In Blue
  • At one time, a half a dozen major aerospace businesses were headquartered in Los Angeles, whereas today only Northrop remains.
  • Half a dozen dump trucks were beetling around with loads of supplemental sand.
  • The quaint grossbeak, the ugly heron, the dirty-black buzzard, the hideous water-goose, with his featherless body and satiric head, start up from their nooks as you enter; the water moccasin slides warily into the slime; and if you see a sudden movement in the centre of a leaden-colored mass, with a flash or two of white in it, you will do well to beware, for half a dozen alligators may show themselves at home there. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
  • The text of the poem is flanked by frames containing annotations, cross-references and half a dozen other types of supplementary material.
  • On my first trip to the pub I am reminded how half a dozen pints can reduce dazzling intellectuals to burbling halfwits.
  • Half a dozen senior people in the energy ministry, recently sacked on suspicion of taking bribes, may well join him.
  • Not three, not half a dozen, not a rifle platoon.
  • There is hardly any one here who can understand what they call my caprice of entering the priesthood, and these good people tell me, with rustic candor, that I ought to throw aside the clerical garb; that to be a priest is very well for a poor young man; but that I, who am to be a rich man’s heir, should marry, and console the old age of my father by giving him half a dozen handsome and robust grandchildren. March 22d. Part I.—Letters from My Nephew
  • And that's because no national art form produces half a dozen full-length, imperishable works on a yearly basis.
  • A boy herded half a dozen camels down towards the water trough.
  • I'm a bootmaker; I'm the last person on earth qualified to be organizing any sort of relief mission - even one that's as small as half a dozen people. Jeffrey B. Swartz: Sharing Strength and Sowing Seeds
  • The sago pasty, the artocarpus bread, some mangoes, half a dozen pineapples, and the liquor fermented from some coco-nuts, overjoyed us. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • In the northern agency, about half a dozen districts comprise a pollution control area.
  • 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.
  • The alarm was taken by half a dozen more, and by the time the two boys were afoot and had seized their weapons -- _splash, splash, splash_! Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days
  • It's a big irrigation dam that has feazed half a dozen good engineers. Out of the Primitive
  • Investors are fretting over the possibility of a government default by any one of half a dozen European countries. Times, Sunday Times
  • Brother Denis the hospitaler made haste to placate him, and move him to a dry bed elsewhere, but within the hour it became clear that while the first drenching soon slackened, a steady drip continued, and was soon joined by half a dozen more, spanning a circle some yards across. The Confession of Brother Haluin
  • By following a ledge round to the right, a rope can be belayed to a couple of bolts, and a descent made for half a dozen metres down the wall, to just below the lip of the ledge's funnel.
  • And imagine his horror when he shuffled into the consultant's room to be confronted by a genial man flanked by half a dozen female medical students. The Sun
  • Aaron had no experience of beyond purchasing an occasional tooth-ful at the grocery-store, won half a dozen acres from Korean lespedeza, the crop he'd at first selected as his soil-improver there. Blind Man's Lantern
  • Louise always has half a dozen boys dangling abouther.
  • There must have been at least half a dozen pepper morays, and we spotted a tiny juvenile boxfish hiding under the starboard side and looking like nothing so much as a bright yellow dice, less than the size of a thumbnail.
  • There was a small gristmill, a sawmill, a blacksmith shop, an ashery and half a dozen houses, all rudely built, planted in a surrounding of stumps, with the bush encircling all. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
  • The captain ordered half a dozen of his men to take the wagon. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
  • The apiary was nearby; half a dozen hives faced south down the slope.
  • The first is Jim Glennon, who won half a dozen caps for Ireland in the eighties.
  • In addition, the young butler had stored away certain demijohns, holding half a dozen gallons each, of excellent _ "tafia," _ Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
  • Just before midnight, half a dozen miles from Beaumaris, the engine lost power.
  • In any family quarrel, it's usually six of one and half a dozen of the other.
  • He looked around the village, which consisted of half a dozen mud huts and a wooden palisade with a ditch surrounding it.
  • Meantime, Jan's prestige had been lowered in the eyes of half a dozen other dogs, each one of whom would certainly presume upon the unresented affront they had seen put upon him by their common enemy. Jan A Dog and a Romance
  • All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head, The Malay Archipelago
  • So we asked a few of them for half a dozen innovations in retail that are getting them excited.
  • If the tide is out, there are usually half a dozen seals sleeping on the rocks, and we just sit there and watch.
  • Half a dozen sales pitches are underway at any one time.
  • Navy, singing six nights a week in a honky-tonk band, selling cars, building houses, managing a coffee house, and half a dozen other jobs. An Author's Path To Success: Quitting Your Day Job
  • Half a dozen tree lined boulevards criss-cross the city with French elegance and the streets through the middle heave with traffic of all kinds.
  • There were only half a dozen people at Communion.
  • There were just dainties, and simple foods, like vegetables with dip, cracker dishes, cheese and fruit platters, and at least half a dozen trays of desserts.
  • Up to half a dozen may break the barrier.
  • 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.
  • In polyglot Turkey, for the dockworkers in Salonika to function, they had to speak half a dozen languages.
  • It comprises about half a dozen buildings, including a small mosque, several houses and two cramped dormitories.
  • He found half a dozen fishermen seated under the palm trees at the foot of the Co-operative quay.
  • A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar.
  • Originally coal was mined on a 'butty' system where a butty was a middleman between a gang of half a dozen workers and the proprietors, the miners being paid a fixed rate per ton.
  • I could make all of those things go if I would take the trouble to re-begin each one half a dozen times on a new plan. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)
  • And from a total of 33 constant friends, only half a dozen are ‘bosom buddies’.
  • Half a dozen ducks waddled up the bank.
  • He feels the sweat wrinkling its way along his skin in half a dozen places, and the waistband of his undershorts begins to wilt and roll. AUGUST HEAT
  • More than half a dozen England cricket captains were there. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was led by Silvio Berlusconi, one of the half a dozen richest people in Italy, a television, publishing, and real-estate mogul who had been a close ally of Craxi on the left, but now surprisingly allied himself with neo-fascists on the extreme right. Italy's Dirty Linen
  • It may not be the Borneo rainforest, but 300 yards across a dewy meadow is a long way in the middle of a cold night, particularly when you have to make the journey half a dozen times, with and without children.
  • This contest is wide open: any of half a dozen teams could win it.
  • Half a dozen parrots cut a brilliant green streak across our bonnet before disappearing into the looming darkness ahead.
  • More than half a dozen species of birds have come to roost, which include black-winged stilts, cattle and little egrets, little stints, common sandpipers, pond herons and little winged plovers.
  • Getting a blockbuster summer rolling early, here are half a dozen superhero films for the price of one ticket. The Sun
  • Over the course of three decades. the association sent half a dozen resourceful men into this unmapped land.
  • As it was, there was a smallish core of about half a dozen note takers, usually with one person taking the lead and others chipping in with lost/misheard bits or to correct typos.
  • For example, being left on his rough bench with an old dandy-brush to guard, Jan was approached in turn by half a dozen of Dick's comrades, who exhausted their ingenuity in trying to entice, frighten, or persuade him from his post. Jan A Dog and a Romance
  • There a yeoman armed with a rusty ax that might have been swung at Hastings, clad in patched wadmal, preceded a scolding wife burdened with their bedding and cooking pot, and half a dozen children clinging to her skirts. The High Crusade
  • In the northern agency, about half a dozen districts comprise a pollution control area.
  • There are still half a dozen to write home about. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even the shoeshine boys spoke half a dozen languages, from Greek and Turkish to Ladino (Judeo-Spanish).
  • It would not have surprised me to learn that I must subtract at least half a dozen syllables from that portentous phrase to reduce it to alexandrine dimensions. The Guermantes Way
  • There's the old lumber-house -- there's the squatter's house -- there's where the cow keeps, and there's the hogsty, and half a dozen more, all of which you're quite welcome to. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia

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