They are not quite a dozen elderly Poor Clares, lately moved from their home of 800 years at Besançon, 60 miles to the south, which they had sold to help pay for the new place.
Not quite a dozen years later the album, really a partnership between Beck and the Dust Brothers, is rightly known as a landmark, for both its savvy production and its cavalier image-and-genre scramble.
The Fairgrounds Speedway is a 106-year-old, six-tenths-of-a-mile racetrack that has quite a history — dozens of Daytona 500 winners have raced there, including the Nascar legends Dale Earnhardt, Coo Coo Marlin, Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip — but not much of a recent past, at least not since 1984, when Nascar stopped holding its top racing series there.
I can't quite 31, half a dozen within funny.
I won't give you a play-by-play of the games they pretended to play (and if you ask me, a few they actually did), but we saw quite a number — a dozen or so.
In the end, she couldn't quite get past a woman a dozen years younger who had never previously reached the last 16 of a grand slam.
The C.I.A.'s loss of a dozen, and quite likely many more, of its spies in the K.G.B., the Soviet Army and Soviet military industries has been covered pretty well in previous books.
But I.E. isn't perfect: It gets quite sluggish once you open a dozen or more tabs, and it's also not nearly as zippy as its rivals at loading complex Web 2.0 pages —like Gmail or Google Maps.
But just in case the lessons of the past haven't quite sunk in, here are a dozen or so suggestions -- some serious, some less so, some downright contradictory -- for restoring the Tony Awards show to its former glory.
At the seed stage, Impulse VC has been quite active, participating in about a dozen rounds since 2013.
The sense of significance shared by the enthusiast passengers was subdued quite a lot when four dozen average punters got on at Shepherd's Bush, philistines who clearly had no idea that they were taking part in history.
