Sentence examples for dozen before from inspiring English sources

But it claims that it will increase that number to a few dozen before long, and later to hundreds.

Black spied handmade wooden necklaces, trying on a dozen before deciding that lunch was a more pressing pursuit — so we headed off to Joloff, the couple's favorite Senegalese restaurant, for a meal of a peanut curry dish, known as mafe, with joloff, a signature West African rice stewed in tomatoes and spices.

University "tech transfer" offices have boomed from a couple dozen before the law's passage to nearly 300 today.

Touching base with the two back-up fast bowlers in the Test half dozen before the end of the summer will already have been a useful exercise.

Facing Michigan, the nation's No. 1 team, the Princeton star scored 41 points and had his team up by a dozen before he fouled out with 4 minutes and 37 seconds left.

She called about a dozen before she found one that agreed to meet the family, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, one of the seven local charities supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund.

The morning that Elizabeth Taylor died, Phyllis Shelton received nearly half a dozen calls before noon.

He had run a few dozen marathons before, so he was hardly a beginner.

Everything said seems like a quotation from something they've all seen a dozen times before and half forgotten.

First, he talked about succession, saying what he has said a dozen times before, but that in itself is revealing.

And so he told them about going to Greece, perhaps a dozen years before, back in the late sixties.