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The phrase "a dozen issue" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a misphrasing; the correct form would be "a dozen issues."
Example: "We have a dozen issues to address before the meeting next week."
Alternatives: "twelve problems" or "a dozen concerns."
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I get my news mostly from the Nation, the Guardian, public broadcasting like NPR and BBC and a dozen issue specific, independent sources.
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I've seen a few copies, and it was well done; it only lasted a dozen issues.
Already a blue-chip advisory group is tackling a dozen issues, including who's covered, what counts and when it all begins.
Even in the race for prime minister, the financial crisis has emerged as just one of a dozen issues and usually not the top one.
The exhibition will include vintage copies of Flair, which although it lasted for only a dozen issues, boasted a contributors' list that included Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams, Gloria Swanson, Eleanor Roosevelt, John O'Hara, Gypsy Rose Lee, the Duchess of Windsor, Lucien Freud and Dalí.
But it was removed online following criticism from the French activist Marwan Muhammad, a former director of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, in a lengthy Twitter thread that raised more than a dozen issues with the piece.
The most recent draft texts indicate that leading countries are still far apart on perhaps half a dozen issues going into the summit meeting, despite efforts by both the United States and the European Union to settle disputes and shorten the agenda.
This year, I'm bringing some Virginia Woolf — "To the Lighthouse," which I've never read — half a dozen issues of the London Review of Books and New York Review of Books, a collection of Balzac novellas, "Mating" by Norman Rush, Terry Castle's new collection of essays, "The Professor".
The FEC appears to have settled on about half a dozen issues, the most contentious of which is known as the "media exemption". It refers to provisions that exempt the news media from campaign finance laws, including a nearly 100-year-old law barring corporate contributions to political candidates.
"Hillary Clinton is a leading expert in any one of a dozen issues, from politics to policy, and it would be crazy not to try to extract as much of that knowledge as you can in any amount of time you can get from her," said Matt McKenna, a former Clinton family adviser now working with Mr. Bullock.
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