Dozen in sentence

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

I think that, if we look at what happened on the Internet, with such an incredible last half a dozen years, that it's hard to even get the right analogy for it.

I was on a dozen machines that were keeping me alive.

There were a dozen tubes coming in and out of my body.

In the United States alone, 100,000 men, women and children are on the waiting list for donor organs, and more than a dozen die each day because of a lack of donor organs.

He's a former hotel manager; he's got three dozen members of his church ..." They laugh him off.

Or to build a dozen of these, or a hundred of these, around the world?

I have half a dozen ideas.

I got a few dozen things out of the boxes, I put them about in a room, and I invited people to come in and ask me about anything that they found interesting.

And we now have over 50 patients around the world who have had this surgery, including over a dozen of our wounded warriors in the U.S. armed services.

Yet comparatively, we have about a dozen targeted medications.

John is one of [about] a dozen very heroic, courageous people who volunteered for the study.

TEEB has more than a dozen separate groups of solutions including protected area evaluation and payments for ecosystem services and eco-certification and you name it, but these are the favorites.

So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.

We have over a dozen methods of contraception for women: pills, patches, IUDs, shots, sponges, rings, etc.

Let's see: we're going to Mars, we need two dozen volunteer rocket scientists, one dozen volunteer metallurgists, some crazy dude who will mix rocket fuel in his backyard and so on.

And we had items like making sure everyone in the room had introduced themselves by name at the start of the day, because you get half a dozen people or more who are sometimes coming together as a team for the very first time that day that you're coming in.

Believe it or not, these are the most abundant vertebrates on earth and many are so small that a dozen could fit in this one tube.

So this means that over the course of the next two dozen years, we'll be able to look at a million star systems, a million star systems, looking for signals that would prove somebody's out there.

All right, so the bottom line is this: Because of the increase in speed, and because of the vast amount of habitable real estate in the cosmos, I figure we're going to pick up a signal within two dozen years.

And I feel strongly enough about that to make a bet with you: Either we're going to find E.T. in the next two dozen years, or I'll buy you a cup of coffee.

I mean, even with two dozen years, you open up your browser and there's news of a signal, or you get a cup of coffee.

Suppose some time in the next two dozen years we pick up a faint line that tells us we have some cosmic company.

In fact, this reminds me, I don't know, a couple years ago I gave a talk at a school in Palo Alto where there were about a dozen 11-year-olds that had come to this talk.

I've had over a dozen bones, this guy, over, eight, 10 concussions, to the point where it's comedy, right?

Would you believe about a dozen paragraphs?

I've had honest-to-goodness high blood pressure for a dozen years now, same age my father got it, and it's a real disease.

We made, I think, about a dozen trips to Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Delhi, Hyderabad, you name it, to examine what is the level of corporate innovation in these cities.

In Zimbabwe, for example, there were just about a dozen psychiatrists, most of whom lived and worked in Harare city, leaving only a couple to address the mental health care needs of nine million people living in the countryside.

We didn't have a blog, let alone a dozen twitter accounts like we have today.

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