How To Use Half-dozen In A Sentence
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A fortified city, Numantia had fought Rome for the better part of twenty years, between 154 and 133 B.C. The Numantines inflicted defeat and humiliation on a half-dozen Roman commanders.
The Spartacus War
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And then, in the pouring rain, a half-dozen supporters stood around waiting for the media to show up.
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The enticement of an exploration permit was strong enough to draw a half-dozen miners to the sidewalk.
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Whenever we go up there, we often stop off just to buy a half-dozen to take back to Canberra.
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For a half-dozen albums, the sentimental chanteuse has avoided mimicking other people's songs, opting instead to bend and deconstruct the material to fit her mood.
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At the Information Ministry, also on the river's west bank, civilians armed with rocket-propelled grenade rifles stood by and a half-dozen soldiers manned sandbagged positions.
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The EPA should be able to reduce OP risks in major children's foods like apples, pears, grapes, peaches, green beans, and tomatoes by 98 percent or more by targeting actions against just a half-dozen higher-risk OP pesticides.
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It featured a series of comedy skits and a half-dozen songs, all loosely recounting the colonial experience.
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A half-dozen young skaters with boards under their arms sit down on a long bench up against the wood.
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Of the half-dozen or so charities who enjoy her patronage, most will be aware of Booth's public skills as a communicator.
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Because every hotel and inn and ryokan and minshuku within a very large radius was fully booked for the two nights of the festival, Echo and I had booked a room in Nagatoro, about a half-dozen stops away on the old country line railroad.
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I counted at least a half-dozen utterances in the pre-credits sequence, plus one "declasse" from Jim.
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Jack Randall -- such a jolly chick! you must be introduced to him -- has promised to tie a cord across the pavement at the corner, from the lamp-post to a door-scraper; and we have made a careful estimate that, out of every half-dozen people who pass, six will fall down, four cut their faces more or less arterially, and two contuse their foreheads.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841
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It's either the funniest scariest movie I've ever seen, or vice versa," smiles Inland Empire: "Shot in the chintziest-looking digital video, starring and a half-dozen other familiar figures from the director's oeuvre, the new film is at once
GreenCine Daily
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I liked sleeping and being able to leave the house without making sure I had a half-dozen toys and a Baggie full of Cheerios.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
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With Mary Pierce, Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport ranked in the top half-dozen, women's doubles is hitting a golden era.
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Wal-Mart also is restricting a half-dozen phthalates in "mouthable" products for children under three to no more than 1,000 parts per million, which in effect makes their use impractical, experts say.
Wal-Mart Raises Bar on Toy-Safety Standards
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He would not have remained in the city even if the story that his own men were spreading were true, that a half-dozen assassins possibly capable of shelling the Soviet Embassy were in the vicinity.
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A half-dozen of his own modern examples were shared by two or more.
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The half-dozen snails were attractively presented in a beige earthenware dish and had been cooked in a herby, garlic butter.
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The half-dozen or so low cigar-shaped mounds are pillow mounds relating to a more recent rabbit warren.
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The Republican nominee could gain about a half-dozen net electors from the transfer of House seats—and thus electoral votes—from the northern Frostbelt to the southern and western Sunbelt.
The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven States
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But throughout the past half-dozen years there has been a stubborn tendency to flirt with unrealistic ambitions.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has a grand establishment known as the Société d'Automobiles Bauchet, which will cater for any and every want of the automobilist, and has a half-dozen sights of first rank, from the old Hôtel Dieu to the bizarre doubled-up Eglise St. Nicolas and the seventeenth-century, wood-roofed market-house.
The Automobilist Abroad
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There were burgers, poultry, vegetables, hot dogs, bratwurst, pizza, potatoes, cotton candy, and a half-dozen other food delicacies.
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And so it was on one particularly busy Monday, when I received at least a half-dozen patients, including a hypotensive febrile encephalopathic young man who had been rejected by the MICU.
How Do You Sleep at Night?
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The 23-year-old was rarely out of the first half-dozen in the sprints this year in his first Tour, and will surely win a stage soon.
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Not only the above half-dozen but all the lads on the panel know what the build up to an All-Ireland final is like.
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Table saws allow you to cut all kinds of lumber and plywood with great accuracy, safety and ease, I've owned three over the last 20 years, and used a half-dozen other machines while working professionally as a cabinetmaker and carpenter.
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A half-dozen watchers, leaning statuesquely on the shafts of their peavies, watched the ordered ranks pass by.
Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
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In Melbourne there have been twenty four gangland killings, the last half-dozen amid the general public.
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Then when the final half-dozen qualifiers come round these youngsters will be much more experienced.
Times, Sunday Times
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His Taylor Shellfish Farms raises a half-dozen varieties of oysters, plus clams, mussels and even giant geoduck clams two feet long that it sends to China and Japan.
Oysterman Fought for Puget Sound, Reaped Its Bounty
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Almost a half-dozen were taken to hospital with injuries.
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Doves are smaller than chickens, so you eat three or four instead of half of one, just as we usually eat a half-dozen or more perch compared to a single walleye fillet.
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Richmond, the ever-talented caricaturist, has posted his poster art for the 2011 National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards, featuring a half-dozen honorees and nominees for May's ceremony.
IMAGE OF THE WEEKEND: Tom Richmond talks of unveiled NCS Reubens art
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He was the only mourner among the half-dozen without a formal reason for being there.
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In lieu of that volume, he has presented excursuses on reflexivity in most of the half-dozen books he has published.
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He mentioned a half-dozen species, including the yellowheaded weaver, the rosy barbet, and the Javanese three-toed woodpecker.
The Song of The Dodo
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A half-dozen anonymous workers scout ahead to check possible hive locations in hollow trees or wall cavities.
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The city of steel was the flagship of the Battle Group, surrounded by an armada of supporting ships including a half-dozen frigates and destroyers.
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Then when the final half-dozen qualifiers come round these youngsters will be much more experienced.
Times, Sunday Times
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He scurried around a clearing we'd made with our machetes and arranged a half-dozen fallen logs, each about eight feet long, into a giant spoked pattern.
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Legislative analysis by a half-dozen states that rebuffed ASID's attempts to cartelize interior design -- including Colorado, Washington and South Carolina -- has failed to support ASID's claim that the location of your couch or the color of your bedroom walls is literally a matter of life and death.
Watch Out for That Pillow
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Keeping an eye on the colony over the next fortnight I saw that another half-dozen polyps had followed the first.
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And so it was on one particularly busy Monday, when I received at least a half-dozen patients, including a hypotensive febrile encephalopathic young man who had been rejected by the MICU.
How Do You Sleep at Night?
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Thus far, there have been no ill side-effects, therefore I shall commence blending a half-dozen gallipots of the peppermint cream for the Featherton ladies.
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A half-dozen times on the trip Chang and Sen had sat in the hold, sipped the potent mao-tai that the captain always had in good supply on his ship and talked about life in China and in the United States.
Excerpt: The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver
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She also matched initials to the names of more than a half-dozen workers.
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To begin with, she reviewed in mind her old acquaintances: there were a half-dozen professors, instructors, assistants who called infrequently on her father and whom she had come to know with a degree of familiarity.
The Desert Valley
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It appeared that while his comrades had been attending on Giuseppe, the third Corsican (whom they called Ste, or Stephanu) had filled up his time by rifling our camp; and of all our possessions he had chosen to select our half-dozen spare muskets and a burst coffer, from which he now extracted and (for his comrade's admiration) held aloft our chiefest treasure -- the Iron Crown of Corsica.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
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After a recent Press conference he went round the half-dozen journalists in the room and adjusted their collars and lapels.
The Sun
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Look, it wouldn't be 24 without a half-dozen plotholes that you could drive an Oprah through, but the fact that there's a stem cell treatment (even if it is experimental) for those exposed brand new and heretofore unseen bioweapon is a bit much.
24: Garofalo lives to annoy another day
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In a jiffy, Poetry and I were back outside, and with him holding the ladder and with me all trembling inside, but not too nervous to climb, I went up that ladder, hand over hand, and in less than a half-dozen worried jiffies, had our swing board off the chimney and tossed it out into a snow drift.
Shenanigans at Sugar Creek
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Baked garlic escargots, served by the half-dozen, are seasoned with eight kinds of herbs for an authentic Norman flavor.
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The water moved free as the air from one compartment to another; furthermore, a strong smell of gasolene from the after compartment leads me to suspect that some one or more of the half-dozen tanks there stored have sprung a leak.
Chapter 2
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At least a half-dozen bobbles cost potential double plays.
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The whole seemingly uncompanionable half-dozen, stabled together, may pass the long wet hours when the door is shut in livelier communication than is held in the servants’ hall or at the Dedlock Arms.
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He created a half-dozen memorable characters that often winked and made funny, out-of-context asides to the audience, and no one topped him at ad-libbing.
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On a languid day, maybe a half-dozen little boys or girls would stop in with enough change for an orange soda or maybe just a piece of bubble gum, and Connie would read them a story or show them a story-video as an extra treat.
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Situated off the north coast of Jura, it is one of the half-dozen biggest maelstroms in the world.
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Perhaps we can learn a few things by examining the departure of the past half-dozen incumbents.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is now working with his fifth manager in three years and, if Dalglish really doesn't take it permanently, it will be a half-dozen.
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And though it is still clogged with scaffolding, shipwrights, and a half-dozen cherry pickers, the promenade is already expansively dramatic.
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My mom called a half-dozen groups in those early hours of Thursday morning.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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It went through three plan names—TAP for Tuition Account Program, TAP 529 and nowU—plus a half-dozen logos, before settling in 2009 on the "very long but very descriptive" Pennsylvania 529 College Savings Program, says Kathleen McGrath , the program's director.
With 529s, You Can't Judge The State From the Cover
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It is the central point of your body and, if you are male, by the time you get to 35, it is usually beginning to sag, hanging over your trousers and adding an extra half-dozen to the six-pack you were once so proud of.
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Known by a half-dozen aliases during his career, Denard was one of the so-called "affreux" or frightful ones, the white mercenaries who helped maintain dictatorial regimes in Africa and
ANC Daily News Briefing
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This week shows a pretty broad cross section of the last forty years of film andtelevision, including at least one half-forgotten classic TV series, possibly the best cop show ever, and a half-dozen other, smaller releases with appeal tomore selective audiences.
DVD and Blu-Ray Releases This Week « Screaming Blue Reviews
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He used that dog-tired phrase about a half-dozen times during today's press conference as he defended his impending immigration plan.
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Produced while he watches a half-dozen tapes of each team he's assigned to cover, Mr. Raftery's one-page, double-sided reports are written in capital letters and a tiny, crowded scrawl.
A Sportscaster's Secret Playbook
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You'll find a half-dozen of the best dive sites a short boat ride away, which lets you avoid the tiresome schleps to and from the city.
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It didn't take long before the light drew the bugs, a half-dozen butting against the ceiling and lamps and more bouncing off windowpanes.
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As we slowly navigate the rental van up a narrow sloping driveway, a half-dozen young teenage boys dart across our path, passing a basketball back and forth.
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A mosasaur seemed the obvious choice, given your half-dozen publications on them!
Dinosaur Discoveries!
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So we're adding a half-dozen tasks within the same timeframe in which we couldn't accomplish the original number of tasks.
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Call it gumbo, bamya, lady's fingers, bhindi, quingombo or a half-dozen other names, okra is an annual vegetable usually thought of as a Southern plant.
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More than a half-dozen Japanese business and technology magazines ran cover stories about the iPad's debut, with one declaring in English: 'Here comes the game-changer.'
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A half-dozen giants are bidding for the right to launch satellites that can pump streams of data directly into homes.
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Situated off the north coast of Jura, it is one of the half-dozen biggest maelstroms in the world.
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In the courtyard of the alcazar, he summoned Sancho Nunes and a half-dozen men-at-arms to attend him, mounted a charger and with Emigio Moniz at his side and the others following, he rode out across the draw-bridge into the open space that was thronged with the clamant inhabitants of the stricken city.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
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Explornatura, a Turrialba tour operator, offers a half-dozen treks around the area ranging from "canyoning" (rappelling cliffs and waterfalls) to shooting the rapids in "duckies" (inflatable kayaks).
Bob Schulman: Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird... It's a Plane... No, It's a Tourist!
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In fact, of the half-dozen, only the Toronto Maple Leafs appear in with a chance to challenge for Lord Stanley's jug this season.
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Add to that team two cameramen, Sharp, a Billabong rep, me, and a half-dozen Chilean journalists and gofers - and you had one long caravan anytime the surfers set out to look for waves.
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They were with a half-dozen friends at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem last month, so the establishment tacked what it called a mandatory 18 percent gratuity onto the bill of about $73, according to reports.
Archive 2009-11-01
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a strong smell of gasolene from the after compartment leads me to suspect that some one or more of the half-dozen tanks there stored have sprung a leak.
Chapter 2
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And anyway, by the late ’70s, Mr. Hockney had detoured in a half-dozen directions: theater sets and costume design, where the artist showed himself to be a virtuoso; photography, where he did not; and farragoes into Cubist collage, Chinese philosophy and “fax” drawings, as well as the artist’s crazily overpublicized theory that from the Renaissance onward, artists used optical devices to paint in perfect one-point perspective.
The Unconfounding Delight of David Hockney
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With a half-dozen pupils in the field, he's constantly being passed, do-si-do, from partner to partner on the range.
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Another half-dozen property groups add more than 23m.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last month, a video surfaced on YouTube showing soldiers in Pakistani army uniforms firing at a half-dozen blindfolded prisoners.
Expanded U.S. military aid sought for Pakistan
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At the BLM office in Salt Lake, Larry Shackleford spoke with my mom at eight A.M. Immediately upon hanging up, he sent a “Be On the Look Out” notice for my vehicle to the BLM and Utah State Fish and Wildlife offices, then called a half-dozen of his personal acquaintances in those bureaus to follow up and make sure they received the action request.
127 Hours
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A half-dozen men with peavies rolled a white-pine log of about a foot and a half in diameter into the clear water, where it lay rocking back and forth, three or four feet from the boom piles.
Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
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Perhaps a half-dozen other cops, including a couple of sergeants and their white-shirted boss, wandered around the park.
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All three kept a half-dozen other Saguaro balls in the air while we concentrated on finishing this book.
American Grace
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A half-dozen scrawny sheep blatted at the travelers’ approach.
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These have proven to be a viable instrument of social security reform in more than a half-dozen countries, with their origins in Sweden.
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Now it will be a struggle for Nader to increase his ballot presence in more than a half-dozen or so states.
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So yesterday morning, when News Alerts deposited into my in-box a half-dozen links to news stories mentioning me, I swiftly clicked through the assortment.
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In the warehouse, a half-dozen or so rooms are stacked floor to ceiling with some of the world's finest wines.
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In the Middle Ages, the Crown designated a half-dozen sites in London where a herald would read proclamations from the king.
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A little later Balatta had returned, bringing with her a half-dozen women who, unbeautiful as they were, were patently not so unbeautiful as she.
THE RED ONE
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A half-dozen men play dice games while a woman upstage pours and serves their tea.
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In the meantime we had somehow collected another half-dozen helpers.
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For transport policies, we know we are in the top half-dozen in the country.
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The matches would feel more real and there would be less of a need to go through the half-dozen substitutions which regularly mark the second halves of such games.
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All in all, some half-dozen perfumeries own a portion of this land; my portion is forty acres.
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On the eve of coming home from school, I would write the Driver to get many of these marsh tackies penned and fed, so they would be in good shape when I got there, and then, getting a half-dozen or more of our negro boys about my age, would bridle these devilish beasts, strap a saddle cloth on, and go bouncing and scampering over the plantation.
Memoirs of a southerner, 1840-1923,
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Six laps on day one were followed by another half-dozen yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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He trialed a half-dozen varieties on a rocky, elevated field with poor soils and an unpromising northeasterly aspect.
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It showed him that his command had arrived correctly, so as to englobe the half-dozen enemy vehicles everywhere above the billows.
Time Patrolman
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And the half-dozen ealdormen present bent toward one another in hasty consultation.
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest
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Since then, some Chinese scholars have been reluctant to speak out on the issue — indeed, a half-dozen experts on the subject each declined to comment for this article.
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You'll make a good point, a half-dozen of her commenters will respond with some counterpoint, and if you respond to more than 2 of them she deletes your posts without notice and declares you a "chatterer".
"You might be smart enough to play chez Althouse, but you have got to try much harder. Get out of the boys' club..."
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About 500 demonstrators, carrying placards and banners, protested the execution, while a half-dozen or so death penalty supporters were on hand, some waving confederate flags.
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Today, there was about a half-dozen people across the street carrying signs demonstrating in favor of the monument being moved.
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Andy Shleck, Fabian Cancellara and big George Hincapie, all in their National Champions jerseys, Mark Cavendish, leading home the gruppetto, and a half-dozen others.
Flipping the Script: Upside Down and Against the Wind
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I hand over the half-dozen stems that I've collected and our bouquet is now 34 flowers strong.
Tante Marie-Francoise
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Mamacita, the annual Christmas fair continues on Sunday, November 18, from 12: 00 to 6: 00. $1 glogg as you walk in the door, a nice “grocery” on the main crafts-and-rummage level, and a half-dozen varieties of $4-to-$7 open-faced sandwiches in the dining area downstairs.
Lunch at the Norwegian Church Fair… Who’s with me? | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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A half-dozen nooses hung from a single long crossbeam, supported by heavy timbers between each noose.
SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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He's gone to a half-dozen events and first scored at the Bryant Park rally, with a woman sitting next to him on the grass.
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The nearest clinic was more than 50 miles away over rough terrain and inhospitable roads, and her husband, her only assistant during a half-dozen previous births, was drinking at a cantina.
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The half-dozen neighborhoods I drove or walked through in various parts of Stockton proved but repeats of Little John Creek, still littered with empty homes -- "decimated" -- more than a year after the financial meltdown occurred.
TomDispatch
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But" - he sighed and looked around the noisy glittering place, at the smart barmaids, the well-clad throng of loungers, some in evening dress, the half-dozen gorgeous ladies sitting with men at little tables by the window -- "I thinks as how you gets more real happiness in a quiet village pub, and the beer is cheaper, and -- gorblimey!
The Fortunate Youth
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Amyas, who expected to find there some remnant of a higher race, was disappointed enough at seeing on board only the usual half-dozen of low-browed, dirty Orsons, painted red with arnotto: but a gray-headed elder at the stern seemed, by his feathers and gold ornaments, to be some man of note in the little woodland community.
Westward Ho!
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One day in early December of 1996, Moira and a half-dozen fellow students decided to occupy the school.
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It featured a series of comedy skits and a half-dozen songs, all loosely recounting the colonial experience.
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Sure enough, a half-dozen tiny streams of green liquid were splattering on the floor of the vent.
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OAKLAND A man who damaged at least a half-dozen Oakland police cars with a hatchet and shotgun blasts behind police headquarters was shot by an officer early Sunday after he refused to drop the gun and appeared as if he was going to fire again, investigators said.
Officer.com: Top News Stories
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In one lousy summer I was hit by two cars, "doored" four times someone opens their car door right in front of you, and wiped out a half-dozen times while trying to avoid a crash with a moving car...one time causing a crash into a parked car that wrecked my bike.
What the Gates story says about race and culture
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From the midst of the crowd, thrust out by its own vividness, appeared the face of a wild-eyed squaw from the remote regions of the Upper Tana-naw; a strayed Sitkan from the coast stood side by side with a Stick from Lake Le Barge, and, beyond, a half-dozen French-Canadian voyageurs, grouped by themselves.
The Wit of Porportuk
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The half-dozen or so cultivars of this herb include both green-leaved and red or purple-leaved forms.
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In fall 2009, a mysterious artist called How to Dress Well posted a free EP called The Eternal Love, and a half-dozen more EPs followed on the project's blog in the next six months.
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The premise: during the tail end of a sleep-over, a half-dozen of his child-centered stories are acted out by a quartet of overly wound-up kids stubbornly avoiding sleep.
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Coventry was a provincial capital, one of the half-dozen largest provincial cities and the fourth richest.
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Jack Randall -- such a jolly chick! you must be introduced to him -- has promised to tie a cord across the pavement at the corner, from the lamp-post to a door-scraper; and we have made a careful estimate that, out of every half-dozen people who pass, six will fall down, four cut their faces more or less arterially, and two contuse their foreheads.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841
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Now, a half-dozen veterans on the reservation say Lonetree should have been freed long ago.
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In Melbourne there have been twenty four gangland killings, the last half-dozen amid the general public.
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Often clouds of black skimmers, yellowlegs and a half-dozen species of sandpipers would wheel over our duck decoys, occasionally alighting right in the middle of them.
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Mr. Ettinger's enthusiasm for suspended animation proved infectious: At least a half-dozen other cryonic-suspension organizations exist in the U.S., Russia and Portugal, with hundreds of frozen clients awaiting revivification.
Pursuing Immortality, He Followed a Frozen Path
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Take a footpath over the highway toward the city for some old-time religion in any of a half-dozen historic churches or graveyards.
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A quick glance around revealed a half-dozen other kids concealed in doorways, keeking out from behind walls, or half - hidden behind trees.
