Sentence examples for dozen turns from inspiring English sources

A series of brief solos — one dancer occupies center stage briefly, then is replaced by another, entering from the wings, and so on, through half a dozen turns — expands the work, and allows it to breathe.

Rather than search for the best move in a given position, as humans do, the computer considers all white's moves even bad ones and all black's possible replies, and all white's replies to those replies, and so on for, say, a dozen turns.

A dozen turns upriver in the village of Nueva Vida, a robust 78-year-old elder named Filomeno Torres Marquez recalls that when he was a child, "we were naked, without clothes, or chickens or salt or sugar".

Only a dozen turned up, but plotters claim that resolve elsewhere is firmer than expected.

Scarcely more than a couple of dozen turned up for the inaugural meeting.

He tried to run science inductions for the new intake of MPs in 2010, but barely a dozen turned up.

The group of current and resale objects at Charles Cowles, whose stable comprises current painters, sculptors and ceramicists, includes a dozen turn-of-the-century pieces selected from the work of the eccentric American potter George Ohr (1857-1918).

THE exhibition "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work" at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich, focuses on the theme of work in several dozen turn-of-the-20th-century American Impressionist paintings.

Devolution for the English regions is a bit like trying to catch a bus - you miss the first one, hang around for a while, and then half a dozen turn up virtually nose-to-tail.

According to the AP, only a few dozen turned up.

Dozens turned out to protest, photos and video showed.