DOZEN

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dozen substantiv

1. duzină;

10 /a dozen 10 şilingi duzina;

by the dozen cu duzina;

twelve dozen pairs of gloves 144 perechi de mănuşi;

(it is) six (of one) and half a dozen (of the other) a) e tot una, e acelaşi lucru, nu-i Tanda, ci Manda; b) sunt o apă şi un pământ, sunt la fel de breji;

baker’s / printer’s / devil’s / long dozen treisprezece.

2. mulţime, număr mare.

◊ to talk nineteen to the dozen a vorbi neîncetat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I redden, tumble over half-a-dozen words, and stop.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

We were a dozen feet apart.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

"A year from now I'll be earning more than a dozen men in the Railway Mail. You wait and see."

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Researchers previously linked less than a dozen genes to ASD.

(Gene Disruptions Associated with Autism Risk, NIH)

‘Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen yards of it?’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He lay panting on his side, a dozen feet away, unable to crawl to her.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Well, yesterday the ape-men got hold of a dozen of the humans and brought them in as prisoners.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We can't give up our girls for a dozen fortunes.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

For a moment a dozen challenges flashed backwards and forwards at this sudden bursting of the cloud which had lowered so long between the knights of the two nations.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

About ten or a dozen years ago, before her marriage, she had spent a considerable time in that very part of Derbyshire to which he belonged.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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