The phrase "a dozen would be" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing quantities or making estimations about a group of twelve items.
Example: "If we need to order supplies, a dozen would be sufficient for our needs."
Alternatives: "twelve would suffice" or "a dozen should be enough."
Such farms, he suggests, could be very large indeed: perhaps a dozen would be enough for the whole of the United States.
I'm not talking about oysters to eat — although a dozen would be nice to go with that leftover bottle of Champagne that I really should drink if the fridge goes off.
Outside the Royal London Hospital on Wednesday, demonstrators had organized shifts so at least a dozen would be outside throughout the day.
Every day in Haiti, we encountered the problem that killed him: Manufacturers of glucometers would give them away like free candy, and sometimes a half dozen would be scattered across the hospital.
Even for a full-time cheesemaker, three dozen would be a lot, especially if they aren't mere variations on one or two basic cheeses.
An early penalty presented the home side with a great attacking position and Jamie Peacock shrugged off half a dozen would-be tacklers in a rampaging run to the line.
The police say they have been searching for a dozen would-be suicide-bombers for a month.Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said Iran had stepped up uranium enrichment in defiance of a second UN Security Council resolution ordering it to stop.Chad admitted that its troops had crossed the border with Sudan into the Darfur region and fought with Sudanese soldiers.
Dozens would be numbing and expensive to keep.
Or, almost all of them — about two-dozen would be deemed top secret.
Few newspapers travel with the president now — only three or four on some trips — where a dozen would have been the bare minimum a few years ago.
The only time I tried it I was confident that a dozen balls would be an adequate supply.
