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Examples of dozens
dozens
Dozens of headlamps lined the route, shining in the night sky like streetlights.
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In fact, they had been off by one decimal point for dozens of readings for days.
From the bostonherald.com
Dozens of people crammed into the building's small lobby to pore over the lists.
From the denverpost.com
Travel agents will also orient you to the dozens of cabin types some ships have.
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There are dozens of men who have been injured, some very badly with head wounds.
From the time.com
Seven American upstarts have filed for bankruptcy, and dozens more are expected.
From the businessweek.com
That's because the country is also building dozens of conventional power plants.
From the businessweek.com
Out of the dozens of potential contestants, I was the one not carrying an atlas.
From the suntimes.com
There are dozens of children of similar backgrounds in Jakarta and its environs.
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- Twelve: denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units
- Twelve: the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
- (dozens) tons: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
- Dozen, common abbreviation doz or dz, is another word for the number twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the moon or months in a cycle of the sun or year. ...
- (The dozens) The Dozens is an element of the African American oral tradition in which two competitors, usually males, go head-to-head in a competition of often good-natured insults. ...
- A set of twelve; A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many; An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight
- (Dozens) either the first, second or third dozen non-zero numbers (1-12, 13-24 and 25-36, respectively). If the ball lands in one of the twelve numbers in a dozen, the odds paid are 2-to-1.
- The dozens bet is located right under the numbers in the layout. There are three dozens in the game you can wager on-first, second and third. When you win, the wager pays 2:1.
- The word dozen is a contraction of the Latin Duodecim (two + ten). This root also appears in dodecagon (from duodecagon) and duodenum, the first part of the intestine which is about twelve inches long.
