Sentence examples for target a dozen from inspiring English sources

Surrounded by friends, he fired a fastball into a target a dozen feet away in the "Get Tanked" booth.

The resurgent Green party is to target a dozen seats across England, which it believes it could either win or come close to seizing in next May's general election, as membership rises and confidence grows that it could outpoll the Lib Dems.

BANGKOK — Eight men were arrested on Wednesday in Malaysia in connection with the firebombing of a Pentecostal church last month, one in a series of attacks that has targeted a dozen Christian churches, the police said.

They targeted a dozen locations, most offering programs in the fast-growing health care arena.

The U.S. and allied Arab nations started a third night of air raids over Syria, targeting a dozen small oil refineries that generated up to $2 million a day for the group, U.S. officials said.

But it is part of a larger pattern that has made radiology the target of a dozen cuts in Medicare reimbursement since 2006, he said, totaling $6 billion.

The Archdiocese of Hartford has been the target of a dozen civil lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct by priests since 1990 and has spent nearly $2.5 million to settle the suits, the principal lawyer for the archdiocese said.

Also in July, Pokemon Go players were robbed of their smartphones at gunpoint in a north London park in Britain, while four teens in Missouri in the U.S. used the game to target around a dozen people into armed robberies.

The SWAT team then locates its target: a couple dozen three-foot high cannabis plants in a modest indoor basement garden, and a pound or so of dried plant matter, some lights, some fertilizer, and a few books on how to grow marijuana.

They would have to have been triggered either by a timer of some kind or a remote-control device, both of which are more easily detected in baggage checks.Intelligence sources also say the plan involved phased attacks, targeting about a dozen planes and possibly concentrated on British and American airlines.

The team targeted half a dozen medals at the event but doubled that tally.