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Billy is a bit of a lady's man -- every time we go out for drinks, he gets at least a dozen phone numbers from cute girls.

The next morning the barber found a dozen bibles at the door to his shop.

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

It was close to midnight, and he and a half-dozen peers at the checkpoint stood around our car on the snowy mountain road.

That may not sound like much, but remember a person with TB can infect another dozen or so people over the course of a year.

Much of South Korea's wealth is concentrated in just a few dozen large conglomerates, known as chaebol, such as the Samsung group.

It is ok if you subclass only a few controls but it's going to be a nightmare to subclass a dozen or so controls.

My girlfriend and I had been living together for a dozen years, and those findings seemed so clear to me that I went home and proposed.

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

Well, said the policeman, When we pulled her up she had two five-pound lobsters and a dozen good size Dungeoness crabs on her.

America's financial system is now dominated by a few dozen firms that are assumed to be too big to fail.

But competition is tough, with maybe four or five brokerages slugging it out for the big deals and up to a dozen on the mid-sized ones.

Men carried corpses in blankets away from the scene and a dozen others tried to turn over a car with two bodies beneath.

He said several dozen workers have rejected the offer and are trying to disrupt work at the factory.

I did not particularly relish the long train journey and had brought along a dozen magazines to read and reread.

Aviation is one of a dozen or so areas of advanced technology, including renewable energy, in which China intends to become a global player.

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

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

O'Connor said the Baby Gaga was just one of a dozen radical new flavors at the shop.

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.

I did not expect him to come here for training of 3 months to see the result is not his fight, a dozen were on the back.

He made his way to a burial ground planted neatly around with pines. There were a dozen grave mounds.

Miranda: You think a dozen roses and a card that says "Best wishes" qualifies as a grand gesture?

When I saw that little boy tonight, I knew what I could do for him, and I put together a dozen of my very best roses.

Every new answer breeds a dozen new questions. What I know, compared with what I do not know, is like a grain of sand by the sea.

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

While you're struggling with a little bitch like that there may be a dozen cunts on the terrasse just dying to be laid. It's a fact.

There were pools of blood in the streets, and protesters carried at least a dozen wounded from the front line of the clashes.

Upon his request, the 35-pound dress made of a dozen thin-cut flank steaks was quickly transported to the meat freezer at a local deli.

Nearly a dozen smaller parties appeared to have managed to win only three seats between them.

A huge run-up in grain prices is enough to make bakers rethink their traditional definition of a dozen.

The computer is next to a square bowl, bowl with me a few days to bring back more than a dozen tablets almond.

Visibility in parts of Moscow was down to a few dozen meters due to the smog, which carried a strong burning smell and causes coughing.

You may even be a little surprised to see that it takes only a few dozen lines of code to do some fairly amazing things.

It's just a dozen years since the first medicine to treat MS was licensed, and now there is a large number of these in development.

Usually sets up dry time for a few minutes to more than ten minutes, and a maximum of flexographic drying to a dozen or so hours.

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.

The electronics industry only had a dozen or so components, and look at the diversity that came out of that.

He said a few dozen documented Neanderthal burials from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia have already been documented.

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

The next day, they dress me in Chinese uniform, give me a rifle and take a dozen more pictures.

Although no one seems to have perceived it, the era of ever increasing immigration restriction had come to an end a dozen years before.

Executives, accustomed to adding only a few new people a year, interviewed more than a dozen job candidates some days.

For the rest of the year, this "salt sea" provides work for a few dozen local men, who make a living extracting the salt.

All but a dozen households agreed, in return for a share of the rent paid by the company.

In turn, Weber was the most famous of a dozen women directors who found a booster in Carl Laemmle, the head of Universal.

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

"I'm just so happy to be here, " she said ebulliently as she entered the rocket Monday, watched by about a dozen relatives.

In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more.

And Boosaaso's main jail may be proof of that. The other day, a dozen pirates were hanging out in the yard under a basketball hoop.

A medium-sized company or university might have had one or two computers, while large institutions had at most a few dozen.

With just a few components on the page, it is possible that the getter method will be called upwards of a half-dozen times.

Academic literature studies at least a dozen concurrency models important enough to go into production.

Qatari-owned Al Jazeera is the best known of the racier channels, but it is only one of a dozen 24-hour Arabic-language news providers.

On a whim, he decided to take a trip around the country to look up nearly a dozen old girlfriends.

Randall Dale Adams is released from a Texas prison, following a dozen years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.

Some students are also dozens of a dozen rounds, but I have not yet received the ball had already kick in. , submerged by the sea.

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

It was the biggest vessel hijacked by the pirates so far, and joins at least a dozen others held in Somali ports waiting to be ransomed.

Detection of such a person to ask, before more than a dozen every year.

But on a recent Sunday morning the only living things to be seen were two stray dogs and a dozen soldiers hunkered down in an old bunker.

To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

They actually do conduct a few investigations overseas -- about a dozen a year -- maybe 20 in a good year.

If I absolutely believed that (after hearing it a dozen times this postseason) I'd swear by them, too.

But Prof Cabral will not be the last: a dozen faculty members from the Spanish business school will move there over the next few years.

So, of course, he found a parking space right in front of the entrance, after a dozen times driving round and round the block.

In other cases, like Philadelphia, protesters set up in a public park already occupied by a few dozen homeless.

The florist is happy and left. The next morning the barber finds a "Thank you" card and a dozen roses waiting at his shop door.

All day? When you could have been celebrating? I must have passed a dozen feasts and parties on my way here.

And an internet dating site may come up with not just a few dozen, but thousands of allegedly suitable matches.

As the monarch of Great Britain, Queen Victoria's bed must have had at least a dozen mattresses.

At least a dozen women claimed or were reported to have had affairs with Mr.

On this visit, she performed transfusions to the child and a dozen more injured and diseased people and treated their wounds.

Completely different landscapes and completely different climatic conditions can be found within the space of only a few dozen kilometers.

The document did not reveal how much each of Blackstone's founders and other dozen top executives would sell into the IPO.

In late August 2007, on a routine swing through the U. S. , Reithofer met for a light lunch with a half dozen of BMW's top American dealers.

Remember a few years ago when cameras captured at least a dozen cars refusing to stop for an injured woman laying in the road?

The leaves enter the vortex, swirl around for perhaps a few dozen times and then are blown out in an unpredictable way.

When the weather is hot summer, stone is take oil, we want to 2 dozen female crab, he found a shady long tables and sat down.

Cai head smashed fade, a week living Hospital, linking the heads of a dozen needle, the hospital is still lying out.

Top analysts have been leaving Wall street by the dozen, most of them helped through the door with a firm push.

Each of his fingers bears a blue chunk set in silver, and at least a dozen strands of blue and green beads hang from his neck.

The first year, he recalled, the class started out with about a dozen students, but all except for him dropped out by the end of the term.

"Glory to Hemingway, " she said in a simple ceremony watched by a handful of tourists and a dozen Cuban soldiers.

How much are they per dozen?

The main street of Hibiscus was not big. Paved with flagstones it was wedged between a dozen shops and a few scores of houses.

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

It was the last of its kind to have lived on the Asian mainland; a few dozen remain on Java.

divided into a few dozen plates of various sizes and shapes, in general the plates are in motion with respect to one another.

The only way I could manage to carry all gadgets in a single go would probably be a garment that sports a couple of dozen pockets.

Her eyes dart about to the dozen or so inmates who are trying to break in and get her.

When you are trying to coordinate a fix pack across a dozen different applications, hardware reliability is the least of your problems.

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.

My sister Doris, though two years younger than I, had enough gumption for a dozen people.

Close cal: The cameraman is just a few dozen feet from fiery lava pouring out of the rock.

This Beijing lawyer and a few dozen other well-to-do Chinese signed up for a real estate tour of the U. S.

A year ago, at a get-together of a dozen girlfriends from college, I saw my old friend, Therese Gibson.

The month-old thornback ray is just 12 centimetres long and is one of a dozen hatched from eggs known as "mermaid's purses" .

The next day, men going to work on time, and a day, and gave the girl home immediately dozen telephone, still no response.

After the boss left, the dramatist had a dozen buns for supper. Then he began to doze off.

Zhang Qian was captured by the Huns just as he left Han territory, and was held prisoner for a dozen years.

That shocked consumers, for whom a pound of coffee had been as standard a purchase unit as a dozen eggs or a six-pack of beer, he said.

Eventually, government officials say, up to a dozen other producers might be able to satisfy the new rules, but not for several months.

If she is lucky, doctors will be able to extract at least a dozen healthy eggs that will be kept frozen until she is ready to use them.

He does about a dozen hospital jobs a week, and he says they normally involve a wait of two to three hours.

Debt has rarely been cheaper, with higher-rated companies paying just a few dozen basis points over government bond yields.

A dozen or so trolls began to smash apart the chamber with their clubs, while hags glided about the place in search of children to eat.

Most of us come down with at least a couple of colds a year; children get up to a dozen.

Even if she had not walked this path a dozen times before, the whole island just was not big enough to get lost on.

And out of that field campaign we'll probably get a few dozen papers on a few dozen processes or molecules.

Our military has put the terror training camps of Afghanistan out of business, yet camps still exist in at least a dozen countries.

Republicans picked up at least 60 House seats and, with more than a dozen races still too close to call, the number probably will rise.

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

The next morning the barber found a dozen lawyers waiting for a free haircut.

One night I hid half-dozen eggs under a bush in my garden , and next day I let him see that I gather them . I wan 't bothered after that .

When I put him with only a few dozen blocks of that was erased when the money was already the seventh day I ran away from home.

In the last month or two I've slowly been unfriending people on Facebook, a dozen or so at a time.

As a dozen bankers awaited an important meeting with him, he retired to his bedroom, lay in bed, and shot himself in the heart.

A dozen escape pods popped from her hull as the ship caught three of the four lances of fire.

Earthquakes of similar magnitude have struck bigger cities in richer countries and claimed just a few dozen lives.

All that Edmond had been able to do was to drag himself about a dozen paces forward to lean against a moss-grown rock.

If I send Cindy a dozen roses, do you think she'll get the message that I'm in love with her?

The last of a dozen buses filled with women and children departed around 2 p. m. for a more distant shelter in a crowded junior high school.

Greg Garland, a local narcotics cop, used to discover about a dozen houses a year that had been turned into marijuana factories.

In July 2009, Hussein was one of a dozen pants-wearing women arrested in a restaurant in Khartoum.

Newcomers from vineyards in a dozen countries trying to launch their finest wines on the world market come to London first for validation.

You might be surprised at how few of them there are--just a few dozen, rather than the hundreds you might guess.

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

Father seems to be aware dozen is won't work, he won't like before with a hanger to hit me, critically I.

It had a dozen or so links, and simply served to tell people what the World Wide Web was all about.

Researchers also found a similar connection in a dozen other patients, although not quite as dramatic as in the two featured cases.

So what to do with Mendocino County's "Bear Woman, " who remade her home into something of a luxury resort for more than a dozen bears?

Adult videos The collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I led to Greater Syria being carved into a half-dozen states.

And when companies do come to campus, instead of having a dozen positions to fill, they might have two or three.

I did not know it at the time, but she was the last human person I was to encounter for more than a dozen years.

For about a year an average of a dozen people met each Tuesday morning, and Rose came just a handful of times.

But at least these filmmakers and a dozen others aren't afraid to put fresh spins on ancient movie formulas.

The next morning the barber found a dozen doughnuts at the door to his shop.

Throw The right hand flick the ball against a dozen, tennis straight at me, I a flying from my head bent, tennis quickly flew past.

But Gionee did not appear out of nowhere. The company, along with a dozen equally fast-growing domestic peers, is well-known in China.

Mr Griffin talks about seriously contesting "at least a dozen" seats at the next general election.

He repeatedly watched a two-minute tape Dr. Llewellyn had made of a half-dozen of his perfect pitches.

On a bitterly cold night, he had to clamber to the top of a dozen rail tankers to check oil levels with a dipstick.

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.

a worker daily repeat thousands of times of a few movements a dozen boot door, remove the work-piece, remove runner, close machine door.

One was an e-mail forwarded to me gleefully by a dozen different people around the world.

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.

Becky had a dozen admirers in his place to be sure; and could cut her rival to pieces with her wit .

Thank you for your order of 100 dozen of the shirts. We assure you of a punctual execution of your order.

The same situation also occurred in the county side, large and small, a dozen self-employed persons, but did not form a joint force.

When lifting his head, Peak saw standing on the slope were a dozen or so Shaolin monks, all holding weapons in their hands.

In about a half-dozen cases, the bank has filed to have the matters removed to federal court, filings show.

It showed another house besides bin Laden's clearly in the blast radius and estimated that up to a dozen civilians could be killed.

Not only have I been asked by a dozen fan-girls if I know Edward Cullen, but I've had three people ask me to suck their blood.

The squeeze will get worse as a dozen top-selling drugs lose patent protection over the next two years.

At least a dozen relatives with smiles on their faces came to hear the lawyer read the will.

The tormentors could hammer at least a dozen wedges up and down the legs.

A dozen different things that he might say flashed through Digory's mind, but he had the sense to say nothing except the exact truth.

When she applied for her passport, Grace had to fill out a half dozen different forms.

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

Currently, most people with type 1 diabetes have to prick their fingers up to a dozen times a day to assess their blood sugar levels.

Perhaps a dozen times George Willard and the strange, shapeless man who lived at his father's hotel had been on the point of talking.

A dozen plots against New York have been thwarted or have failed since the attacks, including one to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge.

Shi is one of a dozen students at the university who volunteered to feed the stray cats on campus during the winter break.

Every night he walked a dozen miles, without which, he said, "I should just explode and perish. "

There are only a few dozen in Russia and this was the first case of one being stolen, the daily said.

The Chongqing lender is one of a dozen urban commercial banks that have attracted foreign capital in recent years.

When IDA was invented in the 1960s, it was one of about a dozen donors in the average poor country. Now it jostles with over 30.

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.

So far it is visible, in a couple of dozen countries, mainly in the form of small pilot projects run by the UN and NGOs.

About three dozen people had gathered before 8 a. m. , when the public was allowed to enter, hoping to be among the first to visit.

Most of that work is handled by three interpreters on staff, including Abbey, and a half dozen contract interpreters.

Despite the conviction, the site continued to operate, leading more than a dozen movie studios to sue to take the site offline.

Now, after 40 years of less powerful seismic activity, there have been a dozen earthquakes of 8. 0 magnitude or greater.

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

Bin Laden was said to have married four times, the last time to a young Yemeni girl, and he had perhaps a dozen children.

An artificial archway connected it with the grotto, to which a stairway of a dozen steps led down.

In one night engagement, the Houthis are said to have tied torches to a dozen goats and herded them into range of a Yemeni army platoon.

DiCaprio required at least a dozen stitches and plastic surgery for the gashes to his face and neck.

After you've died and retried a dozen times and have the layout of the level memorized, you might be able to survive.

This was the pedagogical method favored by many teachers; the dozen or so Chinese people I asked about this all had similar stories.

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

Allow, the company that paid Mr. Sequeira, is just one of nearly a dozen start-ups hoping to profit from the nascent privacy market.

Since the city's founding, the Duke has delegated a portion of his power to a dozen noble families.

The assault on his compound was not easy, but it required only a few dozen personnel with relatively light weapons.

A few dozen more were due to leave Haiti on a flight late Monday.

now that he is sick , she was in and out of his room a dozen times.

The emergence of a dozen rivals after spending seven years alone on the market was one.

Considering your impetuousness and the number of your enemies, a dozen dozen more might be a good idea.

I did not particularlyrelishthe long train journey and had brought along a dozen magazines to read and reread. I looked about the train.

The marketplace is global, and the next competitor could come from any one of a dozen innovation hubs.

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.

The next morning, a dozen FBI agents and local police officers showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns .

Just download a couple of dozen of articles on whatever the subject - from a site like this one into your PDA - and read away anyplace .

However, he is troubled that much of the drop in mortality recorded is the result of changes in the figures for a mere half-dozen countries.

She looked as she had a dozen years ago, before the disease had begun.

And in seminar or discussion sections, get used to being around a table with a dozen other humans, a few books and your ideas.

"I'M A margin-of-error guy, " Jon Huntsman cheerfully admits to an audience of a few dozen at a grand lakeside home in New Hampshire.

When he first met Ma, Son said, speaking in Japanese through a translator, Alibaba had zero revenue and only a dozen employees.

I compare like the basketball, but I will only look that will not play, looks at these dozen of basketball's person very graceful movement.

When a dozen customers are jostling at the till trying to buy the same packet of cornflakes it probably means the price is too low.

These narrow goals would hardly seem to merit flying more than a dozen U. S. cabinet members and agency heads crossing the Pacific.

A group of us remained on Argentine soil to put the villa back in order and return the half-dozen or so rented cars.

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.

A dozen years ago, I could only earn 7, 000 yuan to 8, 000 yuan a year, but I could save more than half of the total.

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

For the last seven months, he and a dozen or so other coders have been building an e-invoicing company called Porta.

Most were unaware that for the first dozen miles or so, the train's engines were plugged into the solar energy source fitted along the line.

Spain's Socialists got over 40% of the vote and fell just a dozen votes short of a majority on their own.

Despite an earlier agreement in principle to disarm, he may already have enough fissile material for up to a dozen bombs.

The Riverbend Teahouse is a down-to-earth place, just a dozen or so tables on a wooden veranda outside a bookshop.

Of course, a real nihilist would not run six miles a day-or write a dozen novels and volumes of stories, as Mr Murakami has done.

If you aren't on a first-name basis with at least a dozen software reviewers, set a goal to make it so.

The kids had adopted nearly a dozen cats and dogs and these ran about with the same abandon as the children.

Secretary: Oh? Let me see. . . That's strange, because according to the order written by your secretary, you wanted twelve dozen.

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

I used to work at a methadone clinic with a dozen, embittered, bitchy, middle-aged social workers and nurses.

On the floor lay prostrate some dozen or so of the enemy , on whom the Mole was busily engaged in fitting handcuffs .

SMU senior engineering major Carson Linstead, who helped erect the dozen different buildings, spent a week living in them.

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

Never did I feel, as I did in those days, so much a part of that city and the half-dozen friends. . .

Even though an e-book is easier to carry than a dozen printed books, it is usually still heavier than a single paperback volume today.

He's got these photos of you, about three dozen of them, just hidden away with all this stuff.

Around a dozen other internet companies distribute its search results and advertising, but some of these have been pulling back.

Last summer, they had grown so many tomatoes that they were able to make a dozen bottles of tomato sauce to last most of the winter.

So I'm putting my best foot forward and sending her a dozen roses and a box of chocolates before I pick her up tomorrow.

The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop, there is a "Thank you" card and a dozen donuts waiting at his door.

By 1936, only a dozen states continued to hold presidential primaries.

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

And as you went up you nearly trod on a mother with her dozen or more little baby quails and they scattered with chirping into the bushes.

Yeah, maybe about a dozen of the women in this office. They've been bombarding me with questions.

He estimated that at least a dozen smaller Indian companies would list on overseas stock markets in the next 12 months.

There used to only be a dozen big-name guys in the business, and I'm talking less than 10 years ago.

Mergers of the Hitachi-IBM variety have been a dime a dozen over recent decades.

Chimpanzees, the closest genetic relatives of humans, use a few dozen calls and a variety of gestures to communicate in the wild.

To cobble together a synthetic biome, the half-dozen Bio2 ecologists sat down at a table together and played this ultimate jigsaw puzzle.

Ernie is mopping the floor. He glances back and sees Warden Norton approach the cellblock with an entourage of a DOZEN GUARDS.

That said, there have been at least a dozen significant rallies in the Nikkei on its overall way down.

30 p. m. - Up the main street, visit the Principe Real square with a century-old cedar tree that hides a dozen benches in its mighty shade.

Qatar officials suggested they were more interested in relatively small stakes in a basket of a dozen or so different banks.

But vaguely, it seems that I tasted the dozen years of laughter and tears, complicated feelings, complex language.

It was getting toward lunchtime, and a half-dozen employees sat at metal desks scattered about the office's large open floor.

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

At any time, a dozen groups are operating covertly within the lawless Terminus Systems, sowing dissent among the various factions.

When I was in college, concerned only with a handful of classes and almost nothing else, managing a dozen accounts was no big deal.

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

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.

Throughout his career, Mr. Rosen has been a frequent technical speaker and author for conferences in more than a dozen countries.