Sentence examples for given half a dozen from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

This is an idiom used when there is little or no difference between two options.

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He has given half a dozen explanations for the Iraq war.

He came on with Tammy Abraham after 75 minutes, meaning Southgate has given half a dozen players their England debuts over the last two fixtures.

The drink and mixology experts Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham premiered "The Thinking Drinker's Guide to Alcohol," a bit of participatory theater where the audience is given half a dozen cocktails on which to sip while the experts expound on booze's heavy influence on historical figures from Jesus and Mohammed to Hemingway and Hitler.

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So she solicited essays from trans women and then gave half a dozen of them a weeklong tutorial.

What other conclusion can be drawn when Hodgson's decision to give half a dozen players their first starts of Euro 2016, breaking the team's momentum, ended with England losing top spot in Group B and forfeiting what should, in theory, have been a more straightforward assignment in the next stage of the competition?

She wants me to get married and give her half a dozen grandchildren".

When Thatcher left, Mitford gave her "half a dozen of my best dark brown Welsummer eggs as a thank-you.

The owner was none too happy, but when she explained that she only wanted her children to taste a fresh Brooklyn peach, he gave her half a dozen.

'Bagheera gave him half a dozen love taps but for a seven-year-old boy [this] amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid.' I found it very difficult to like these two characters because of this abuse towards Mowgli and without sympathetic characters to relate to the book was hard to enjoy.

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Then came several pages that were devoted to an analysis of "The Raven," and the rest of the book was given over to half a dozen verses from the poem itself.

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