The phrase "almost a dozen of" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when referring to a quantity that is close to twelve but not quite there.
Example: "We have almost a dozen of cookies left in the jar."
Alternatives: "nearly a dozen" or "about a dozen".
Before long, though, almost a dozen of those restaurants heard from the Ninth Street office of a man named Bon Yagi.
Mr. Tavarez admitted that he had accepted thousands of dollars and participated in almost a dozen of the more than 100 robberies that the gang carried out over nearly a decade.
On display at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery here at Skidmore College are almost a dozen of Ms. Butterly's quirky, elaborately ornamented cuplike painted clay vessels.
When Anthony Wayne, who stars as Sylvester and directed the show with Kendrell Bowman, preens and prances and struts across the stage, his falsetto at fever pitch as he rollicks through almost a dozen of Sylvester's songs, "Mighty Real" makes for a mighty good time.
Instead, she says almost a dozen of her photographs were stolen off her Facebook page and used in prostitution advertisements on the free ad-listing site Backpage.com.com
Thus, almost a dozen of the unidentified ORFs in Paramecium and Tetrahymena are not unambiguously homologous.
Lieven argued that under the 2009 Welfare Reform Act the government had to publish details of how the various back-to-work schemes worked, and that without publication before parliament or even of publicly accessible documents, almost half a dozen of the DWP's schemes were operating illegally.
In the years since, almost half a dozen of my former classmates from high school have come out.
The three-dimensional structures of almost a dozen complexes of the ligand-binding extracellular parts of these receptors with their ligands have been solved [ 65].
This new restaurant on the eastern edge of Hollywood, which looks plucked from the pages of Etsy, you have your pick from an impressive list of almost a dozen bowls of khao soi.
The chef pays special attention to appetizers: there are nine choices of house-cured charcuterie and almost a dozen varieties of house-made sausages, including Thai duck and venison Cheddar.
