"a dozen properties" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a group of twelve objects, typically when referring to real estate. For example, "The developer bought a dozen properties in the downtown area."
"If I had a pocket full of change, I'd have bought a dozen properties by now".
Police inquiries have since tied the group to more than a dozen properties around south London over the decades.
She added they have seriously considered a dozen properties, but none has worked out for a variety of reasons.
"We're talking about the sort of people who have half a dozen properties around the world already," he says.
Mr. Carzis, who owns more than a dozen properties in Bound Brook, wanted to buy the Dunellen Hotel, which was built in 1869 as a private residence.
The city has yet to acquire at least a dozen properties in the shadow of the arena, through negotiations or condemnation, and relocate tenants.
"They literally are simply taking tenants out of existing office buildings by handing them checks," said Susan Mead, a lawyer with Jenkins & Gilchrist who represents about a dozen property owners, including CarrAmerica and Crescent Real Estate Equities, in Dallas and its northern suburbs.
The decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to uphold the dismissal of the suit was another blow to the plaintiffs in the case — more than a dozen property owners who stand to lose their homes and businesses under eminent domain as the project moves forward.
For the moment, only about a half dozen properties cater to foreigners and the expat crowd, who frequent the rustic-chic bungalows of Coco Beach and the higher-end Sailing Club, with its separate beach villas filled with bamboo chaises and mosquito-netted four-poster beds.
The market has traditionally been dominated by 'mom and pop' investors, most with fewer than a couple dozen properties.
This may explain why Ireland's bank regulators were so complacent about the scarily rapid growth of Anglo Irish, its concentration of lending risk in a single sector and its heavy exposure to a few dozen property developers.In a report on the banking crisis this year Patrick Honohan, head of Ireland's central bank since 2009, wrote of an "unduly deferential" approach to banks by regulators.
