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get out , " said the drummer , lightly . " he hasn t called more than half a dozen times since we ve been here .

She did not elaborate the 'Indian way' but it must include taking a holiday on half a dozen New Years Days!

In most cases, half a dozen of both units is all that is required to overcome most obstacles.

Any tourist could have written it-just a list of the usual show-places and half a dozen thumbnail portraits of local worthies .

He had come half a dozen times to call upon his sister.

He dreamt of that man and half a dozen times he awakened just as he thought a kriss was being drawn across his throat.

But by the end of the hour I found I had learnt at least half a dozen signs, more than enough to get me going with Tom back at home.

School districts in at least half a dozen other states have made similar decisions not to air the President's talk.

In fact it was something of a sore point for me that I had not seen one after more than half a dozen trips to its range in Central America.

It was one of half a dozen such cases at schools across China in less than two months.

Given the importance they claim, it's as if the British army consisted of half a dozen men and an officer.

All this might explain why half a dozen financial and strategic buyers are said to be in early-stage talks.

and I met nearly half-a-dozen bullock-carts descending from the woods, each laden with a whole pine-tree for the winter's firing.

It has half-a-dozen branches of its own and a franchise serving multinationals.

They also had establishments with at least half a dozen alien civilizations, and that the remaining Nazis remain on the moon to this day.

It was rolled up and as she opened it half-a-dozen condoms fell out. The laughter was uproarious, but Kate was not amused.

Neil also didn't find learning easy and had to read and re-read things half a dozen times before he understood what was written on the page.

I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished.

However, only a fraction of his work survives, and no more than half a dozen pieces are really distinguished .

The Marriott name (or one of its sister brands) graces more than 3, 000 hotels worldwide, but the company owns only half a dozen.

He also had a customer seeking to sell half a dozen Buddha statues which he had thought were gold, but were in fact brass.

Interrupting our discussion, the abbot is called upon to induct half a dozen more, the first new batch of this year.

Half a dozen policemen stood by as Ma, Zhou, and another dispossessed neighbor gathered to bash some tiles off the wall the other day.

We painted together every day. He presented me with half a dozen of his works, which are going to be in the exhibition.

I do not know more half a dozen women that are truly accomplished.

"Mummy, " I am asked at least half a dozen times a day, "when can we go on the night train all the way back again? "

Well, I think everyone should commit to greeting at least half a dozen people a day with more than three sentences.

She had stuffed half a dozen of the absorptive pads into the wound and watched as they magically turned red.

The German sent a cruiser, shelled the bush, burned half a dozen villages, killed a couple of natives and a lot of pigs.

By the end of the workshop, out walk half a dozen ducks waiting to turn into swans, ready for lunch.

When couples were free to have half a dozen children, there was a natural mix of boys and girls.

Within hours we knew that half a dozen of our friends had been hit, and that my dinner companion's retirement was over.

Howard wasted no time in 1996 in getting rid of half a dozen department heads he thought were too close to the previous government.

He warns that at least half a dozen developers are in serious danger of defaulting on their bonds.

The lady took him by the hand, went into the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy.

One of the things that people have discussed over the past half a dozen years is why do players perform better for club than country?

In her short time in office, more than half a dozen members of her staff have quit.

He mows lawns and gardens for half a dozen clients in Grafton, some of them family friends. And he is an active volunteer firefighter.

At least half-a-dozen states lay claim to an outcrop of islands in the South China Sea.

but half a dozen good detective stories and a hotwater bottle will enable anyone to snap his fingers at the worst cold in the head.

Finally tonight, I've seen the picture you're about to see. Perhaps half a dozen time, And I still can't believe it.

I use half-a-dozen C compilers on a regular basis, but that's only scratching the surface.

He said that in the past three years, he had engaged in conversations with about half a dozen women online.

In the fall of 1948, Andy met me one morning in the exercise yard and asked me if I could get him half a dozen rock-blankets.

Over the first weekend in March furious crowds surged into the imposing bureaus of the secret police in half a dozen Egyptian cities.

but remember one thing . there arent half a dozen individualists in oakland , but martin eden is one of them .

The U. S. has consular offices in half a dozen Chinese cities, requiring people who don't live near those locations to travel, he says.

About 3 or 4 times a year I buy anywhere from half a dozen to a dozen books on different aspects of design and start reading through them.

Of course if I'd had any sense I'd have married a Malay girl and had half a dozen half-caste kids.

Wellington College is one of half a dozen private schools now sponsoring state academies.

Half a dozen more clinics started up across the nation, opening their doors to anyone whose medical insurance would pay the fees.

As a result, at least half a dozen generations of Americans have gotten themselves clean with Ivory.

He'll swear eternal devotion to half a dozen fair damsels, and ride away rejoicing, while they are left to weep upon one another's bosoms.

Half a dozen countries may have achieved developed-country status, with an income equivalent to Spain's today.

A little way from the castle there was a village of half a dozen houses .

Walking half-a-dozen steps across the paved backyard I open the door to my shed-turned-office, sit down at my computer to start work.

A shift of fractions of a percentage point in half-a-dozen states could easily have swung the election the other way.

Abraham Lincoln failed in business many times in his life, as well as having lost nominations for political position half a dozen times.

who saw the post-cold-war future as a stand-off between half a dozen geopolitical blocks, defined in religious as well as ethnic terms.

Over the next few months, I spoke to half a dozen family members who had seen Oscar at work.

In fact, we have half a dozen deliveries to make at some parties. Again? You're the only dealer in town?

On the floor they were pounding half a dozen stocks in which Maxwell's customers were heavy investors.

In half a dozen cases, soldiers were found to have planted bombs supposedly left by the FARC.

The obvious weakness is in goal, where no outstanding candidate has emerged from half a dozen reasonably good ones.

The United States and half a dozen Latin American countries will now recognise the result and restore relations.

A rival set-up, the Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, now offers dispute resolution in half a dozen British cities.

o Port complex in Brazil and you will see at least half a dozen ships on the horizon.

In at least half a dozen Asian countries real output should contract in 2009.

Some prospective buyers get half a dozen text messages a day on their cellphones from developers advertising new properties.

I can confess it now: the first two weeks I nearly gave up and flew home half a dozen times, thinking I could feign an injury.

instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

I told him I had carried that spoon to match it with half a dozen new ones.

Very well, let me have half a dozen. Come round for the money tomorrow.

Take John McCain, your Republican presidential nominee, whose senior staff includes half a dozen prominent former lobbyists.

But the websites are expanding fast; mukuru plans to open in half a dozen African countries this year.

Bill Bobbitt, a county inspector, dips a ladle into the water and brings up half a dozen wriggling larvae.

Most worrisome, half a dozen victims or their relatives said, is the imperious attitude of the ministry officials.

So what should we call the people who for the last four nights have been running riot in half-a-dozen British cities?

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth.

Today's cars have half a dozen different proprietary networks that carry messages from control systems to the devices being operated.

For more than a decade, the U. S. had sought bin Laden, and missed half a dozen times.

Further on, the group's guide, Barbosa, shimmied up a towering tree and clipped off half a dozen branches.

Perhaps half a dozen other states may see a constitutional amendment blocking Obamacare on the ballot in November.

eg. A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar.

There have been so many defections from France's Socialist Party that the country now has half-a-dozen left-leaning movements.

They've promised to buy about half a dozen players over the last few weeks including Ronaldo and Fernando Torres from Atletico Madrid.

I get calls from at least half a dozen every year.

Acquiring a listed entity can require securing approvals from half a dozen or more regulatory and government bodies.

"Over half a dozen lawyers are on our radar but we cannot arrest them if there is no evidence against them, " says an ATS officer.

In my own life as a working mother, I have done both half a dozen times.

We are currently working on a prototype that will exploit our ability to move half a dozen domain walls along each racetrack.

There are thousands of eating places in Beijing , serving more than half a dozen different Chinese cuisines .

Half a dozen other states have official commissions charged with producing comprehensive reform plans this year.

Within a decade, Russia could possess just half a dozen operational missile submarines.

In a very few minutes he was joined by half a dozen sailors, dragging a rope ladder.

We thought the summit was "just over that peak" half a dozen times before it actually was.

He met the queen's party by the stables, accompanied by Satin, Bowen Marsh, and half a dozen guards in long black cloaks.

Shale discoveries have reinvigorated U. S. oil and gas production that just half a dozen years ago was widely seen as in terminal decline.

Old Sir John with half-a-dozen were at the door.

In recent months, half a dozen women have turned down a second meeting after learning that he had no means to buy a home.

There are at least half a dozen reasons for Europe's slow and halting start, and they all still ring true to varying degrees.

Eyewitnesses say a suicide car bomber targeted a police patrol Sunday in Ramadi, killing more than half a dozen people.

half a dozen ultimately contributed time to the video, and about as many WikiLeaks volunteers from other countries were participating.

Investments in power stations are made on purely commercial grounds; half a dozen big firms compete to sell power to consumers.

Now imagine you are in Singapore or Malaysia and that all three dishes, plus half a dozen more besides, are set before you.

Cisco went for half a dozen, including optical networks, wireless equipment and internet telephony.

Half a dozen additional experts have come to the same conclusion.

Crime-fighters compete with rappers for celebrity: most people can name half a dozen lawyers, judges or police chiefs.

More than half a dozen soldiers have been killed while patrolling in the vehicles.

Pick half a dozen leading stocks in each of those industries and follow them daily.

Mr Karzai's cabinet has also improved, with half a dozen technocrats recruited in the past year to the main economic ministries.

A sting operation has resulted in indictments against two website operators and half a dozen customers.

Half a dozen ministries and offices second- guess ground operations down to the most tactical level.

People return to the stores to buy two or three, or half a dozen.

"Why, yes, sir, " said Archer, who usually tossed off half a dozen papers with his morning coffee.

It plans to shut half-a-dozen factories and sack at least 20, 000 more workers.

To test the importance of wealth, the authors of the report asked why young people joined gangs and rebel groups in half a dozen countries.

Sally kissed her half a dozen times and even in that way could not express all his joy and thankfulness.

I think I'll start with a crabmeat salad and then half a dozen clams.

He thrust half a dozen torches into the brazier's glowing coals and watched the oiled rags flare up.

Half a dozen missions have been canceled, downsized or delayed.

The equipment works rapidly, repositioning half a dozen containers in ten minutes.

It's called geomedicine. There are about a half a dozen programs in the world right now that are focused on this.

The biggest facilities are the size of half a dozen football pitches and house as many as80, 000 servers (see article).

On this humid holiday Monday, just half a dozen tables are occupied.

All of this violates the relational model in about half a dozen different ways.

There were still half a dozen more commercial profilers we could try, but the pattern was obvious.

Courts in more than half a dozen jurisdictions will be pressed to sort out billions of dollars in claims.

Yes. Half a dozen air mail labels and a book of stamps.

But another half a dozen deals will still leave too many banks with too few growth opportunities.

At ten in the morning, simultaneous car bombs and rocket attacks struck half a dozen ministries and the cabinet office.

He is a young boy coming from Man City with half a dozen caps and no Champions League matches.

About half a dozen art indices have sprung up, measuring the rise in prices of sectors and artists.

It's six of one, half a dozen of another, since both routes take the same amount of time.

That settled everything. They put half a dozen Gestapo seals on my suitcases.

You can either meet us before the show for dinner or afterwards for dessert. It's six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Steve: We need a bunch of bananas, half a dozen apples, some cherries, and half a watermelon.

In France the National Front has competition from half a dozen other small parties.

In fact, an intern named Connor Donevan reeled off close to half a dozen in under two minutes.

A colleague organises a monthly meeting for half a dozen entrepreneurs.

It doesn't matter to me which way you do it. It's six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Half a dozen dump trucks were beetling around with loads of supplemental sand.

FLATOW: So my producers are half a dozen (unintelligible) outthink me.

identified half a dozen excellent citizens whom he had known for years.

Huawei plans to introduce the Ideos in half a dozen more African countries by year-end.

I saw him play half a dozen times live last season and his passing is outstanding. I think signing him is a big bonus.

When my two children quarrel, I never know who to blame because it's usually six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Do that half a dozen times or so and the paper-clip will snap in two.

I've pidsed sexual-harassment cases, a cracked hazardous-waste incinerator, half a dozen jet-fuel spills.

Amy hastily shook out half a dozen and laid the rest down before Mr.

More than half a dozen websites advertise such services.

There is a choice of half a dozen desserts including ice cream at every meal, and every last scrap of food is imported.

I took advantage of the special sale and bought half a dozen new shirts.

Reuters approached more than half a dozen major companies with significant business in China for this story but all declined to comment.

I probably saw it half a dozen times during its run in Hope, and have seen it more than a dozen times since.

More than half a dozen new campus buildings are LEED-certified.

He proposed half a dozen accords in such areas as culture, post and communications.

I must have done it half a dozen times.

In March TPG sold its minority stake in Parkway Holdings, a chain operating 16 hospitals in half a dozen Asian countries, for $685m.

More than half a dozen schools collapsed, burying hundreds of schoolchildren under the rubble, according to local reports.

We felled half a dozen young red maples, with trunks as big around as my forearm.

Here are half a dozen things Europeans could do to show that our multilateralism is more than a vacuous slogan.

I have already completed about half a dozen nations competitions that I will make available to whoever would be interested in them.

He had half a dozen houses, but he was seldom at home.

Half a dozen companies offer heating solutions.

But since then half a dozen covered call funds have sprung up, and more are expected.

Half a dozen condoms, a few roofies, and some baby wipes.

Half a dozen vendors, plus in-house departments at major manufacturers, produced $800 million worth in 2000.

Half a dozen nephews shall erase her title, please Heaven!

In all, the students worked with half a dozen groups, each of which weighed in on the various design options.

Half a dozen firms have made similar moves.

Then I found myself surrounded by half a dozen boys.

Half a dozen of the top clubs are for sale. No one wants to buy, though.

This question had also been addressed half a dozen times.

You create half a dozen character sketches every time you attend a wedding or a funeral.

Tom and Adolph, and some half-a-dozen other servants were turned over to the kindness of Mr. Skeggs.

After Mr Bush raised steel tariffs in 2002, half a dozen other countries followed.

Half a dozen trucks parked in the area have also been damaged.

Now, they compete in all but half a dozen of the sports.

How many could give the familiar name of half a dozen plants plucked at a random from beneath the hedge in spring-time?

A child may go through half a dozen activities before settling on one or two she really enjoys.

I don't want to shuffle though a half a dozen disks to get the game installed. . . It is very time consuming and troublesome to do. . .

To get things moving, half a dozen rich countries, including Norway and Britain, have pledged to provide $4. 5 billion by 2012.

Took a lot of heart to stand up half a dozen mechanical Islamics.

At one point, half a dozen rays filled my camera viewfinder. . . a swirl of wings and tails and gaping mouths.

Exactly. By the way, I've already had about half a dozen spam mails this morning myself. -Right.

He charged two dollars for half a dozen eggs.

My uncle knows half a dozen languages.

Tom and Adolph, and some half-a-dozen other servants were turned to the kindness of Mr. Skeggs.

I went half a dozen times to hear him preach and got very well acquainted with his theology.

Half a dozen bottles of beer, please.

Six of one, half a dozen the other , that was their position .

Six of one and half a dozen of the other.

If you can't spare a dozen eggs, half a dozen will do.

There's only half a dozen kegs of powder!

Even with half a dozen giant cats, it'll take 20 minutes to bring the wounded buffalo down.

Down fell half a dozen apples.

One man couldn't lift it, no, nor half a dozen. Stop it.

Are you and your twin brother six of one and half a dozen of the other ?

There were about half a dozen girls in the room, all naked and all beautiful to look at, I must say.

If you have 3-4 goals, that's doable if you don't create half a dozen tasks you need to accomplish for each goal every week.

I know half a dozen.

CRUELLA : We'll settle for half a dozen ! We can't wait ! The police are everywhere! I want the job done tonight .

Is he the religious equivalent of Google, which is using its resources to photograph all the books in half a dozen important libraries?

At least half a dozen fiscal stimulus packages and a swathe of interest rate cuts have barely registered with investors

"I would probably buy half a dozen pairs of nice leather shoes a year: loafers, formal and informal lace-ups, and boots, " he says,

No sooner had the speaker finished than a person in the audience fired off half a dozen questions AT him

It was a most tedious business, not more than half a dozen shoots of garlic being discoverable in the whole field;

Man kidnapped half a dozen boys and girls down in 'Bama,

I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen women

Here are half a dozen essential tips for landing the right job in good economic times or bad:

nothing stands between me and half - a - dozen imperishable masterpieces but pens , ink , and paper

Just to show you, I wrote half a dozen jokes last night for the comic weeklies;

Round the room people were sitting at table, here half a dozen sailors uproariously drunk, there a group of soldiers;

I went half a dozen times to hear his sermon

Poor child. I had about half a dozen in my day,

half a dozen of apples

Half a dozen of them