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half-dozen

half-dozen
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
    • denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units

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    1. We have a half-dozen eggs.
    2. I bought half a dozen eggs.
    3. We have half a dozen eggs.
    4. He gave me a half dozen linen handkerchiefs.
    5. It's six of one and a half dozen of another.
    6. A half-dozen tools make up the tool collection.
    7. I ordered half a dozen books on chemistry from New York.
    8. He used the word half-a-dozen times in as many lines.
    9. When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.
    10. You guys seem to think your proposal is far and away the best, but as far as I'm concerned it's all six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
    11. I sat down to translate the sentence shown on the main page to my native language, and half an hour and two dozen sentences later I had to convince myself to stop.