Sentence examples for a dozen late from inspiring English sources

Two hours later, after being shushed repeatedly by the announcer -- Again, please don't discuss the answers" -- they head out to meet a dozen late arrivals, leaving a trail of bemused New Yorkers in their wake.

There would be about half a dozen late at night, then another half a dozen or so just before dawn.

Set on a "slam-door" train (versus newer vehicles fitted with purportedly safer automatic doors), this compact picture finds half a dozen late-night riders stranded on a London commuter train whose brakes have been sabotaged.

Half-a-dozen late-Victorian literary men left rapt testimonies to the impact wrought on them by the scene in Thackeray's Pendennis in which Warrington marvels at "the great engine" of the printing press.

And there is Pumpsie Green, No. 309, the first black player on the last major league team to integrate, a dozen years late.

There's at least a dozen "better late than never" jokes in here somewhere.

My spectacles are not rose-tinted when I remember several dozen late-summer butterflies supping on buddleia to gain energy for their winter hibernation in very similar garden habitat when I was a boy three decades ago.

Officials scrubbed the launching of an Air Force rocket that was to carry nearly a dozen tiny satellites late on Friday after low voltage was detected in on-board batteries.

"There are too many Mozarts to do the whole lot," said Blakeman, "even in an eight-week season, but we'll do half a dozen of the late great ones.

Even if Republicans only succeed in killing a dozen or so late Obama-era rules and slowing the promulgation of new regulations, that'll still have a substantial impact on the nation.

(She has now written or helped write around a dozen, including the latest, "Comfort Food" — sadly, for us at least, they're all in Dutch).