(1) Eventually the claims were whittled down to around a dozen which had some credibility.

(2) Long queues at the checkouts at midnight, and not much more than a dozen spaces left in the car park.

(3) However, my embassy knows of a dozen recent examples where the opposite has been true.

(4) I ploughed through the list of courses and picked out about a dozen that appealed.

(5) A dozen bottles of sherry

(6) It's Friday evening and so there are a dozen of us trying to catch the barman's eye in the George.

(7) A dozen or so sat on their reflections on the smooth steel grey water of the loch.

(8) With a dozen or so games left to play in the league, the season could easily tail off between now and May.

(9) The first golfer said that he sent his wife a dozen red roses and fixed a gourmet dinner for two.

(10) Place the fish in a large saucepan with the milk and a dozen or so peppercorns.

(11) There were around a dozen of us that turned up, from a variety of backgrounds and with a variety of ages.

(12) Unfortunately it was getting dark but in the time available to them they caught a dozen or so fish.

(13) Over time the faded memories of the dozen or so participants will go with them to grave.

(14) You eat at one of only a dozen or so tables by the swimming pool in a flower-filled courtyard.

(15) This contest is primarily a war of turnout in a dozen or so battleground states.

(16) For every published writer out there there are at least a dozen unpublished who could be.

(17) More than a dozen children spent a couple of hours learning about stained glass making.

(18) A nearby rock, the Haystack, has a colony of seals, of which you can see a dozen or so at low tide.

(19) I was at home last night and this morning brought back to London a dozen or so of these carrier bags.

(20) Only a dozen or so fish had been caught from the dozens and dozens of boats which included two fish for Bill.