With one more round to go, in July, the six-year negotiations have zeroed in on a half-dozen core areas where disagreement remains, the chairman, Tibor Toth, a Hungarian diplomat, said late last week.
There is a core of a dozen of us (all white) who write letters to newspapers, congressmen and other politicians protesting about the war on drugs.
The associates offshoot has a core of a dozen board members and is recruiting new people.
He took on half a dozen patients, then two dozen, then more.
A core of about a dozen protesters typically attends the meetings, though the number fluctuates.
Also, don't forget to look for jobs in companies that on the surface may seem outside your field; a major industry requires a core of employees from a dozen or more specializations.
Here in Portsmouth, a core crew of about a dozen Edwards supporters vowed to march on despite polls showing their candidate in the middle of the pack, far behind Howard Dean, and garnering only 4percentto6percentcent in national surveys.
This offers a core package of a few dozen basic channels which consumers can customized through niche-targeted add-ons.
Many said Hussein Tantawi, the 76-year-old field marshal and Mr Mubarak's long-time defence minister who has led Egypt since February's revolution, had to go.On Saturday a few dozen hard-core protestors tried to occupy Tahrir Square.
WikiLeaks has a core group of about half a dozen full-time volunteers, and there are 800 to 1,000 people whom the group can call on for expertise in areas like encryption, programming and writing news releases.
