Sentence examples for burst a dozen from inspiring English sources
For example, at this point, Mr. Ryan is claiming that he can slash the top tax rate from 39.6 percent to 25 percent, yet somehow raise 19.1 percent of G.D.P. in revenues — a number we haven't come close to seeing since the dot-com bubble burst a dozen years ago.
Since its financial bubble burst a dozen years ago, several false recoveries have come and gone.
Take the blackbird: its song is rich and melodious, but its warning call – when it spots a cat, say – is just a sudden burst of half a dozen staccato notes, which many people will be familiar with.
Just as, at the Met Valhalla, can burst into flames half a dozen times a year & be found leaning against the back wall on 7th Ave an hour later, grimy but unscorched.
At Abney Manor, a dozen goldfinches burst into the air, light catching their red faces and the broad yellow bar on their wings.
Around a dozen demonstrators burst on to a lobby balcony chanting "presente" for all the people they claimed to represent: black Americans, Latino Americans and gay Americans whom they said Republicans persecute.
The uniformed man climbed onto the back of the car and ordered them to continue into the village where he fired a burst from his gun, summoning a dozen armed men who surrounded the vehicle.
Nearly a dozen Kurdish nationalists burst into the London office of The Guardian newspaper on Friday, demanding greater coverage of Kurdish issues and creating a chaotic scene that briefly alarmed the staff.
About a dozen hooded men burst into a clinic in the violence-plagued industrial city of Ciudad Juárez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, on Wednesday, lined up patients and killed 17 of them.
The group first gained attention in 2006 when more than a dozen masked gunmen burst into a nightclub in Uruapan and tossed five heads of drug dealers on the dance floor, with the message: "The family doesn't kill for money.
A few feet down the trench there was a burst of whistling and yelling, and a dozen boys raced to the spot.
