number
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a round hundred/dozen etc (= a complete hundred etc )
baker's dozen
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dime a dozen
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Jobs like his are a dime a dozen.
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Girls are a dime a dozen.
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Metaphors of Britain's decline have been a dime a dozen in the post-war years.
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Sam told her not to worry, jobs like that were a dime a dozen.
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So-called solutions to the longitude problem had been a dime a dozen even before the act went into effect.
half a dozen
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About half a dozen women and children had appeared and were standing, holding hands, watching me.
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Customer-driven systems also allow individuals to meet their needs in a holistic way, without applying to half a dozen different programs.
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He found half a dozen fishermen seated under the palm trees at the foot of the Co-operative quay.
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I still do half a dozen or so of these scarlet cross-overs a year, to this day.
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Inside the cafe there were half a dozen other people.
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Perhaps half a dozen were Hispanic, and the rest, black.
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Sunday night he was wild on at least a half dozen.
it's six of one and half a dozen of the other
nineteen to the dozen
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Everybody except Jurnet clapped, still talking nineteen to the dozen.
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Theories must be abounding nineteen to the dozen.
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They often went on excursions, always talking away nineteen to the dozen.
talk nineteen to the dozen
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Everybody except Jurnet clapped, still talking nineteen to the dozen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Having only one hand, and having that in a dozen things, he has no other to hold out.
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I had some memorable test drives after buying a dozen 6R4s when they were up for grabs at the factory.
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Prescott, the administration building, looked the same, except that there were a dozen cars parked outside.
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The mood is relaxed-very advisable if you have a dozen sheep to get through in a day.
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There were a dozen feature films made, with filming lasting from one week to four months.
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They live, like their ancestors, in packs of a dozen or so.
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We take two dozen blues and a dozen of their predators, the small green crabs that are never far away.