Examples of 'half a dozen' in a sentence
Meaning of "half a dozen"
The phrase 'half a dozen' is used to express a quantity of six. It is a common way of referring to a small, but specific number of items or objects. The phrase is derived from the fact that half of a standard dozen (which is twelve) is six
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- Six (6); often used approximatively.
- six
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half a dozen
Half a dozen times since we last met.
I could eat half a dozen right now.
Half a dozen young girls of the village.
I can not be at half a dozen places at once.
Half a dozen names hit key markers.
We have got half a dozen salesmen here.
Half a dozen preliminary reports from doctors.
I have left half a dozen message myself.
Half a dozen people have called me already.
I will buy you half a dozen dresses.
Done half a dozen sequential bits at state prisons.
They have got half a dozen guards.
Half a dozen purchases were listed in the manifest.
There is about a half a dozen runners in town.
Half a dozen in the next three counties.
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That man murdered half a dozen people.
I got half a dozen bottles in the car.
I will settle for a half a dozen of these.
Cuts half a dozen profits instead of one.
I must have left half a dozen messages.
And half a dozen orange roughy fillets.
We broke at least half a dozen conduct codes.
Half a dozen men have seen it already.
I have left you half a dozen messages.
Half a dozen people heard him say it.
Then we will fix half a dozen girls.
I made half a dozen copies of that video.
I have flirted with half a dozen bozos.
There is half a dozen commandos out there.
He could have killed me half a dozen times.
Along with half a dozen other photographers.
Had academic scholarships to half a dozen colleges.
I found half a dozen there last spring.
There is been nietzschean activity in half a dozen systems.
We have got half a dozen people coming in.
Never been in it more than half a dozen times.
I had a half a dozen great saves today.
They have only done a half a dozen of them.
I know half a dozen firms who will.
There must be at least half a dozen of them.
There is half a dozen undercover cops outside.
I must have bruised a half a dozen ribs.
There is a half a dozen of them and two of us.
He killed two and wounded half a dozen.
We need half a dozen of our best scientists.
I have disarmed at least half a dozen of those.
There is half a dozen bottles in the kitchen.
We tried in vitro fertilization a half a dozen times.
There are half a dozen kids going in there today.
You had to quarantine half a dozen areas.
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A dozen rebel armies still in the field
But there is over a dozen warehouses here
Over a dozen stab wounds in each victim
