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Example sentences for "dozen years"

  • From its appearance it might have been built a century ago; decay and rottenness were apparent from roof to base: but in reality it was barely a dozen years old.

  • In those six months he had grown a dozen years older.

  • All those things were over a dozen years ago, and he is married again, to a spare, unattractive woman, who looks after his food and clothes, and makes him in her way a very excellent wife.

  • Just at first the United Irish Society had been quite the fashion, and held no more rebellious than the great volunteer movement of a dozen years earlier.

  • Long ago in comparative youth she had disappeared for a half-dozen years.

  • If I do anything at all, though I may do it but once in a dozen years, I like to do it well, Dr.

  • Possibly the Elterwater Terrier is no longer to be found, but some few of them still existed a dozen years or so ago in the Lake District, where they were used in conjunction with the West Cumberland Otterhounds.

  • It has taken at least ten or a dozen years to eradicate the mischief, and even yet the cure is not complete.

  • A generous expenditure may be incurred once even by poor people, but cannot possibly be maintained over a dozen years.

  • Then Mary Masters, who had lived for more than a dozen years at Bragton, went back to her father's house in Dillsborough.

  • Having listened to you on these subjects for a dozen years at least I ought to have got rid of all that.

  • The allusion to his half-brother, dead nearly a dozen years, seemed to carry him back into a past so remote that he could hardly remember it.

  • A dozen years ago he was one of the most promising men about.

  • I'm afraid that after a dozen years there's little enough chance of it.

  • Frank Bliss came over from Hartford, and Clemens arranged with him for the publication of 'Pudd'nhead Wilson', thereby renewing the old relationship with the American Publishing Company after a break of a dozen years.

  • Goodman, like MacFarlane in Cincinnati, half a dozen years before, though by a different method, discovered and developed the deeper vein.

  • It was also undoubtedly true, although Helen had not herself reflected upon this phase of the matter, that her half a dozen years' residence in Europe had softened and broadened her views.

  • Half a dozen years before, when Fenton had proposed Peter Calvin for membership, even the social influence of the candidate did not save him from a rejection so marked that Arthur had threatened to resign his own membership.

  • For more than a dozen years past he has foreseen the present crisis.

  • The problem of that Eastern road of a dozen years ago is to-day that of virtually every trunk-line of the Northeast.

  • Yet it was ten or a dozen years before it penetrated to this side of the Atlantic--to be exact, it was just twenty years ago.

  • Lagrange in the principal rĂ´le, but the score was already a dozen years old, and it is not likely that the composer's state of health would have permitted him to undertake the writing of a new opera even if he had been so disposed.

  • It was evident that the animal had gone into the shoal water at exceptionally high tide and had stranded during the ebb; while the condition of the bones suggested an exposure to the weather of perhaps half a dozen years.

  • We've been married a dozen years, and never had a row.

  • Who knows,--after half a dozen years of Chumley influence, I may be as douce and staid as any one of them!

  • Keep a thing a dozen years, and it comes into fashion again,' as my old mother used to say.

  • Mary had "managed" on thirty for a dozen years.

  • Now, I had been on nodding terms with Dainton a dozen years in and out of the House, but we had never attained greater intimacy, as I am temperamentally unable to suffer bores gladly.

  • This--this is the very thing that my uncle Bertrand and I spent half-a-dozen years trying to avert!

  • I shook hands with Maitland and was trying to see whom else I knew, when she returned and remorselessly introduced me to Vincent Grayle, with whom I have sat in the House for a dozen years.

  • I may be good for another ten or a dozen years.

  • It was more than a dozen years ago, when Twombley-Crane was still actively interested in the railroad game.

  • Of this he gave brilliant proof a dozen years afterwards in the unrivalled ballet music of "Guillaume Tell.

  • When Weber was passing through Paris, in 1826, on his way to London, he called on Rossini, but hesitated before doing so on the ground that a dozen years before he had published a hostile criticism on "Tancredi.

  • One or two Westminster reviewers, and two or three Manchester manufacturers, reversed the commercial policy of England in less than a dozen years.

  • I prefer to say that if there were not one man of genius left of the Irish race, there are already materials sufficient to furnish useful and delightful books for half-a-dozen years.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above them; and well; been very; carry them; could imagine; dozen feet; dozen large; dozen men; dozen miles; dozen other; dozen others; dozen oysters; dozen paces; dozen people; dozen rods; dozen steps; dozen words; dozen years; generally found; good wind; great southern; guard them; had turned; little south; shot from; whether the