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About two dozen unionists staged a protest to call for the immediate setting up of a minimum wage and maximum working hours.

People come from all over the country to see who can shuck two-dozen oysters the quickest and the best.

She alighted with her young daughter Piper, posed for a picture with a tourist and hurried past two dozen reporters and photographers.

Already there were two dozen young men in the place; he found a cornerwhere he stood waiting his turn to be interviewed.

At the time, fewer than two dozen of these stem cell lines were of good enough quality to use as a basis for human treatments.

Britain, it is said, may have looked isolated after some two dozen countries signed up to the latest half-baked wheeze to save the euro.

I returned a few hours later, after two dozen laps around the block, 300 jump shots and a half-hour of tossing the football to myself.

Alone among Osama's two dozen or so children, Omar was selected by his father to accompany him to Afghanistan.

And within the next several months, he expects to find at least two dozen of the most important genetic determinants of intelligence.

As he had in the two dozen debates in the primary season, Mr. Obama remained cool, which many took for a lack of fight or passion.

Five minutes later, the door opened and about two dozen people flooded out, down the stairs and into the night, saying nothing.

Close to two dozen boutiques, some of which still flourish elsewhere, have called it quits on Columbus over the last four years.

With a shriek, two dozen bansheerays flash down out of the sky, Na'vi on their backs.

The number of twitchers has exploded in the past few years, with a few thousand members in two dozen clubs.

After graduation in 2001, Lagat began to run competitively and won more than two dozen races at the grand-prix level.

Two dozen zombies, their clothes spattered with fake blood, were staggering up and down the block outside Madison Square Garden.

At least five people were killed and more than two dozen were injured as a section of the plant collapsed and burned.

Chan is believed to have at least two dozen endorsement contracts at present.

Shakespeare wrote more than two dozen plays about love. . . even though the emotion itself would not be invented for another forty years!

Two dozen people came up to me, complaining that I was staring at furniture instead of helping customers.

Kong described having a "warm feeling" looking at the two dozen works at the gallery, a few miles from the Olympic national stadium.

Auditors have resigned from at least two dozen Chinese companies after identifying problems.

Backyard poultry groups meet in at least two dozen cities, from Seattle in Washington to Tallahassee in Florida.

Two dozen grass nest Diaofa: sink to the bottom of a grass nest is playing, is playing a grass nest of flotation.

On Friday, we learned that more than two dozen people were killed when a gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

In the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, about two dozen people -- some wearing masks -- gathered near the U. S. Embassy.

What would two dozen servers from across the country tell you if they could get away with it?

The two dozen teenagers are part of a pilot project started this autumn in nine Belgian schools to promote Chinese language learning.

Our price for two dozen pairs of plastic shower curtains with matching drapes would be $45. Shall we hold them for your order?

He was surely wrong, but his folk etymology is still firmly embedded in the collective consciousness after more than two dozen centuries.

Last month, Jakarta seized some two dozen barges and tugboats preparing to transport granite to its tiny resource-poor neighbour.

But after three, four, or two dozen dates, he realizes that it's going to take a long time to reach the level of comfort he had with his ex.

Over the next decade, these programs spread across the world to cover over two dozen countries by 2008.

More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests Directly to the public , ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.

Over the same period, the number of college departments dedicated to entrepreneurship has doubled to about two dozen and growing.

For the two dozen Libyan students, most of them in their early 20s, the concept of human rights was new.

Mr. Omar and about two dozen business leaders and government ministers accompanied President Rajapaksa to the U. S.

More than two dozen Foxconn employees were interviewed; none showed signs of being afraid to speak freely to a reporter.

In two dozen interviews across the country, many told Reuters a black man would understand their plight.

THIS newspaper recently conducted an unscientific survey of around two dozen Berliners who might be described as Germany's elite.

In the image, approximately two dozen dead soldiers lie in a very neat row across the field.

Almost overnight, the Facebook Class fired up the careers and fortunes of more than two dozen students and teachers here.

Mr. Tabuta said there was discussion on the email exchange over whether the two dozen plus friends should organize a hanami party.

There have been nearly two dozen death crosses over the past four decades, notes Brockhouse Cooper strategist Pierre Lapointe.

According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, at least 48 people are missing, including two dozen who were swept away by landslides.

Now, two-dozen men can tear down a mountain in several months, and only for about a few years-worth of coal.

Hominid evolution over the past 6 million to 7 million years includes at least two dozen species, in Tattersall's view.

Two dozen active cases have been filed, but plaintiffs' lawyers say there could be many more waiting in the wings.

Two dozen police and at least nine Indians were killed in violent clashes in Peru's northern jungle.

His two-dozen books and thousands of articles ended up inspiring a vast, worldwide movement for liberty.

Of the roughly two dozen NBA players interviewed for this article, all said that they usually took naps in the hours before games.

Gmail calls to landlines in China, France, Spain, Mexico, the U. K. and more than two dozen other countries will cost two cents a minute.

Well, today we are not drunk do not return! The waiter brought us two dozen Luoyang palace!

Two dozen have pleaded guilty and a number are co-operating with the investigation.

The shortfall includes close to two dozen training teams for the Afghan Army.

The two dozen subjects each spent an hour inside an fMRI scanner watching four programs while their brain activity was measured.

I'd gladly take a dozen or two dozen failures for a big hit.

Two dozen jackets hung from hooks beside the door.

The Galleon case resulted in more than two dozen arrests and convictions and included the testimony of Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

There are at least two dozen MOX-burning nuclear plants globally.

On land, the Russian have deployed the new SS-27 Topol M missile, but the total number is very limited, to no more that two dozen.

But there - not twenty yards away on the beach - stood the preacher and two dozen of the faithful, performing a baptism.

Their budgets are divided among more than two dozen air forces, navies and armies; and many have defence industries to preserve.

Two dozen people, most of them students, are staging a hunger strike in Caracas and Maracaibo in support of the dissidents.

Two dozen gun-dealers have filed suit, and are hoping the Commonwealth Court will grant a last-minute injunction to postpone the upgrade.

But if you manage fewer than two dozen devices, this technique might work for you.

There are at least two dozen groups that share info virtually.

More than two dozen others have disclosed auditor resignations or accounting problems in recent months.

It has perhaps two dozen members in Montana, a handful of whom recently held a rally in Bozeman.

By then, store employees had called in two dozen police officers to handle the crowds.

On the day she had two dozen medical students following her, mostly male.

Still, the mission has faced significant setbacks, with more than two-dozen NATO troops killed this week alone.

There were a dozen cops and two dozen firefighters on the scene.

About two dozen children are hospitalized, many of them in critical condition, two being treated at Shriners hospital in Sacramento.

The team will meet with stakeholders in two dozen cities before finalizing the strategy in November 2010.

In two dozen states new propositions are being readied to go before voters in 2010.

The UN said on Tuesday that hundreds of relief planes were heading to the region from about two dozen donor countries.

The pope then met individually with two-dozen survivors and representatives of victims' families.

In the past eight months, more than two dozen listed Chinese companies have shown accounting discrepancies or seen their auditors resign.

It plans to launch more than two dozen models over the next two years, up from just three last year, a Geely official said in April.

Over two-dozen bands of Dothraki, known as khalasars, call this dry sea their home.

It emerged that they had witnessed two dozen infants and children being given lethal drugs to speed their deaths.

You can use its existing open source framework to modify more than two dozen effects, or add your own.

Meanwhile, search crews working off Brazil returned the first of more than two dozen recovered bodies to land.

Among her recommendations is Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, which holds about 900 stocks in nearly two dozen emerging countries.

News agencies also reported the discovery Thursday of more than two dozen bodies near Col. Gadhafi's Tripoli compound of Bab al-Aziziya.

It will go on sale in roughly two dozen additional countries next week.

Dr. Holman keeps about two dozen especially telling samples in a portable "teaching rack" for use in classes and at lectures.

Share the discovery of over two dozen new species and capture creatures never before seen or even named!

This might seem fairly minor, but remember installing Windows 3. 1 off two dozen three-and-a-half-inch disks?

Share the discovery of over two dozen new species and capture creatures never before seen or even named!

This might seem fairly minor, but remember installing Windows 3. 1 off two dozen three-and-a-half-inch disks?

The shopkeeper miscount, so we get twenty - five BAR of chocolate instead of two dozen.

Thetest asked people to identify an "odd man out" object in a briefly displayedfield of two dozen otherwise identical objects.

See almost two dozen skits performed with real audiences and explained step-by-step in the classroom.

The raid was conducted by a team of about two dozen Special Operations forces.

Widemile is a Seattle-based company and its roughly two dozen employees will stay on there.

PAUL KRUGMAN: I got maybe two dozen emails; not as many as for "Hey Paul Krugman" .

In the meantime two dozen hospitals in Germany are using honey in their treatment of wounds.

In the most prominent nearly two dozen states, almost all led by Republicans, have banded together.

Over two dozen new magic rings, swords, shields, and helmets! Collect and Master them all!

Only two of about two dozen employees seen on a recent visit were wearing face masks.

Two dozen volunteers, some genetic owls and some genetic larks, were forced to stay awake for two days.

I'd been averaging about two dozen letters for an entire week.

EXAMPLE: Last month , we ordered two dozen copies of Write for Modern Business from you.

More than two dozen live here in cages, including jaguars, pumas and ocelots.

CSOFT's Yee (center) with staff at Beijing HQ. CSOFT employs two dozen Americans in the U. S. and China.

A purported Taliban spokesman has announced a 24-hour reprieve for two dozen South Korean hostages in Afghanistan.

We picked out two dozen charts from a classic ecological report, Global Change And The Earth System.

Bombings around Baghdad left more than two dozen people dead Sunday.

A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people.

Notarbartolo sits down across from me at one of the visiting room's two dozen small rectangular tables.

The encyclopedia has two dozen versions in Indian languages.

It already has some two dozen drugs under licence for Brazil from Roche and Pfizer.

I accepted more than two dozen of them, in fifteen states.

In San Francisco, about two dozen people camped out Sunday afternoon outside the Federal Reserve branch.

Ashland officials are even inviting about two dozen Chinese teenagers to come study at the school.

Her magazine and production companies now employ about two dozen people, mostly in their 20s.

Mrs. Wilkerson has now read two dozen books about peak oil and related topics.

North Korea has one to two dozen nuclear devices, nuclear experts say.

Shortly after the accident, two dozen police were sent to the spot to keep order .

Shortly after the accident, two dozen police were sent to the post to keep order.

A further search turned up eight cell phones, two computers, fake IDs, two dozen money transfer receipts, and $63, 000 in cash.

We did interviews. Picked two dozen: the most normal, the most healthy.

You can name two dozen different types of night market snacks.

Status Offline Only two dozen men -- those who journeyed to the moon -- have seen the full Earth view.

About two dozen typhoons or weaker storms hit the country every year.

Now he wants Build Change to hire another two dozen staff to oversee the building of 9, 700 new homes.

The violence killed more than two dozen people.

I ordered two dozen red roses for my wife from the florist's.

Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people.

We talked to maybe two dozen companies, big and small.

About two dozen members of Team USA went to the White House.

There are over two dozen theories of what causes autism.

It's enough energy to provide power to two dozen homes.

We bought two dozen story books yesterday.

The team of 10 manage roughly two dozen technology transfers every year.

That day, The New York Times ran nearly two-dozen articles on Edison's life and death.

Send her two dozen red American Beauty roses.

With two dozen time bombs ticking inside her?

Andrew Carnegie donated $1. 5m for the construction of two dozen more in 1903.

Two dozen donuts and one thermos of coffee.

Inside the fence about two dozen villagers are standing under a big tree.

Mother bought me two dozen pencils.

He bought two dozen eggs yesterday.

Hagan became the deal guy, buying two dozen companies in 18 months.

We pack two dozen into one carton, whose gross weight is around 30 kilos.

Having sat through two dozen or so graduation speeches, I have naturally wondered why they are so often so bad.

What price could you quote us on two dozen sets?

How do you know I sniffed two dozen? I asked.

A $58 million investment in more than two dozen countries has destroyed more than 21, 000 MANPADS and 90 million ammunition clips.

He consulted with two dozen specialists, but he still didn't have an answer.

"Would you like to invest in one dozen or two dozen boxes of Girl Scout cookies? " she asked.

We brought home two dozen beer.

The team has attended to some two dozen emergencies, including the Asian tsunami in 2004.

On a clear day, they can see France with the naked eye, two dozen miles away.

Like many of the two dozen or so people who were standing in line for free Shiner Bock beer on Austin's 6th Street, I am a "Creator" .

Some two dozen countries including Dubai, South Africa and Hong Kong have approached the EU for such a deal.

Since then, they've been to more than two dozen countries and traveled at least 145, 000 miles.

Since 2005, for instance, IBM has spent $14 billion to buy two dozen firms offering all kinds of gear for "business analytics" .

All right, I'll take two dozen. Could you double-bag everything? B

Two dozen of the pencils;

One Bird with Two Dozen Arrows

I bought two dozen of eggs the other day