The phrase "a dozen past" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a specific time, but it lacks context to be usable.
Example: "The meeting was scheduled for a dozen past the hour, but it started late."
Alternatives: "twelve minutes past" or "twelve o'clock".
Mute the narration, and you could be watching the same screensaver art pageantry of a dozen past nature series.
A dozen past and current Cronulla players, including captain Paul Gallen, accepted backdated 12-month doping bans.
To bring to light the hidden operations of this illicit enter prise, The New York Times has sought out and interviewed more than a dozen past and present heroin traffickers.
There may be close to a dozen past and present Pro Bowlers on the field Sunday, but the key matchup will be Washington Coach Norv Turner, a feared offensive mind in the N.F.L. for the last decade, against the Giants' defensive coordinator, John Fox, who is considered one of the league's premier thinkers.
The organizers announced the event on Facebook, as they had nearly a dozen past gatherings, and drew close to a thousand people.
A few dozen past and present residents of the soon-to-be-demolished Butler apartments gathered during Reunions to share memories of the old Army barracks they have called home.
Eventually you'll hit the Quebec border; a dozen miles past it sits Lake Temiscouata, which is ripe for an afternoon dip.
It was only a dozen years past the civil war, and the church, pro-Franco at the time, preached horrors about the defeated satanic republic.
No mother wants to willingly hurt her child, even if it is a child that had only been held for a mere 48 hours over a dozen years past.
Offshore winds will keep marine air at bay, and high temperatures are expected to soar perhaps a dozen degrees past seasonal norms for the warmest day of 2019 so far.
Even more to the point, Jeter is a dozen years past the best baseball version of himself -- the 25-year-old who in 1999 played a sprightly shortstop and also functioned as a slugger, hitting 24 home runs, to go with 102 runs batted in and a batting average of.349.
