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‘Stephen’s got a pretty foul temper himself … I expect it was six of one and half a dozen of the other if the truth were told
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‘As I said to Emma, six of one and half a dozen of the other
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‘I wonder what will happen to the garage business … he employs half a dozen people … and then there’s his house
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‘We’ve got half a dozen local companies who’ve funded the production in one way or another
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The two women gravitated towards the other side of the room where half a dozen semi-comfortable, rather scruffy chairs were grouped around a low table on which some tired-looking magazines had been heaped
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Half a dozen ducks splashed in the shallows near a small wharf that apparently served the glasshouses nearby … there was a boy sitting on the wharf fishing … he waved as they passed
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It is far better to practice stage 5 only half a dozen times at once
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It is far better to take two or three really deep breaths than half a dozen shallow ones
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The rest of the day goes in a whirl of activity – I am taken to a bird house where half a dozen birds are acclimatised to my tawstones and I am instructed in the mysteries of directing a bird
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It seemed to take about ten seconds and half a dozen panic attacks to cover the distance
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There were half a dozen flounces reaching all the way to the floor
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“They’ll hunt in small groups, maybe half a dozen, usually led by an
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What about some hardy perennials? That grey-green ferny leaved thing, the label says it’ll have daisy-like flowers in the summer, and what about half a dozen of those bedding plants? Maybe some tough-looking grasses would colonise part of the border
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There were about half a dozen
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when you arrive! If I said that it consisted of half a dozen
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run by half a dozen monks, who, they told the visitors,
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with enough space for about half a dozen beds of straw –
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He had come across a specialist fur shop in one of the small towns that he had traveled through and he had helped himself to a half a dozen black minks
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A private man who lends out his money to perhaps half a dozen or a dozen of debtors, may, either by himself or his agents, observe and inquire both constantly and carefully into the conduct and situation of each of them
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by half a dozen newspapers
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of life in the estate, no people, no moving cars and only half a dozen parked, just visible behind the shrubs that hid the many parking lots
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She held half a dozen papers in her hand,
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side of the ion implantation machine, after half a dozen sorcerer's apprentices had bumped into his ankles, disturbing him so much he was barely
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perforated floor with an almighty crash, raising no dust, because there was no dust to raise, but setting off alarms on half a dozen machines
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It was a slow day if he didn’t have at least half a dozen beauties hanging around
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DD Daniels had two sacks, four tackles, intercepted a pass, pressured the quarterback half a dozen times and had now taken out the QB for the season and there was still eight minutes to play in the second quarter
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“I certainly owe you a lot—you’ve saved my life half a dozen times in the last couple weeks—so I’d like to trust you one-hundred percent, but you’re always so reticent and I’m never sure
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Half a dozen keys shot from the laptop, rattling off the desk and flying in all directions
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Half a dozen members tragically died during that shoot-out which followed for the house was a converted fort on the inside and the robbers willing to shoot first
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Half a dozen servers bustled among twice as many tables in the warm candlelight
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A tangle of overgrowth blocked our way ahead, and Dorian turned the wheel back toward the road just as half a dozen motorcycles buzzed out of the stand of trees, bearing down on the other SUVs and blocking our only path out
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After smelling half a dozen on tester strips, I gave up and waved them away
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No sense in teaching a class to anything less than half a dozen
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Holy shit! There were two directly behind us, at about half a mile, and at the same altitude! I picked out half a dozen more in front of us, and then some on our right, way up high in the sky
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“We have half a dozen sets of scissors
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“They could ram a half a dozen through here in the next six months; or a year or so,” I went on baldly
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A half a dozen black troops, in their colourful kepi or fez hats, the bright uniforms, staggering along, clutching, tearing at their throats
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In one clump of tents, there was half a dozen Anonymous campaigners, frequently clad in crumpled suits and shiny masks
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“But we had half a dozen species expanding outwards from their home systems
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He motioned with his free hand and half a dozen men fanned out two by two’s, going inside the rooms and halls on the west side of the monastery
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Then he picked a few of them by eying them alone, motioned with a hand and another half a dozen men left their guns behind
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Half a dozen men complied and went inside the eastern blocks of the monastery
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Two of the fuchuan type of ships were already tied to the pier, half a dozen larger ships were at anchor in the harbor and the sails of more were visible approaching from the north
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A nanoscanner detects a seventy-five foot mother alien shark quickly swimming towards them a half a dozen miles away
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I only have half a dozen words in Finnish, and I’m sure I mispronounce those
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it half a dozen times in rapid succession, but it wouldn’t
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Not that she’d come to the administrative centre of Gathandria more than half a dozen times in her life, but had this strange entrance been here all along? Or had it been carved out as a shelter for the elders during the recent troubles?
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"Half a dozen or more—he was the second one I tried
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wouldn’t have been too strange, but that more than half a dozen would suddenly stop coming
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“I think I saw the fat lady,” Cecil said as Frankie launched half a dozen tomatoes
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On the Dover platform of Victoria station in full view of everyone, half a dozen of my future shipmates were posing like mad mannequins, as camp as a row of tents
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After half a dozen circuits, couples would disappear to be replaced by others walking off their evening meal and renewing friendships
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My refusal didn’t deter them from opening half a dozen bottles with their teeth and downing them in quick succession, laughing and joking at the expense of wogs, women and queers
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Around the bar half a dozen young men, egged on by their girlfriends, were racing to see who could down the most the fastest and wait the longest before joining a group piss into the bath; which is why someone had been calling for volunteers to take a golden shower
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The other guys were pleasant and it was flattering to be desired, so before leaving on tour I relieved half a dozen other polite and courteous gentlemen of their cash in the boss’s luxurious bedrooms
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I would rather tread the boards of a high school stage every day with two hundred adolescents applauding, than act in front of the Cyclops eye of a camera and an irritated neurotic director, while half a dozen crew members chat amongst themselves, uninterested in what’s going on
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Flattering, but who would be waiting at his place to strip me of my belongings before committing rape and murder then selling me into slavery? An Australian I’d met in London had foolishly gone with such a fellow in Egypt and ended up raped by half a dozen men from whom he’d contracted hepatitis
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After carefully checking we weren’t being spied on we accepted half a dozen hastily scrawled notes and promised to post them when we arrived back in West Berlin
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Half a dozen self-conscious students on a university biology trip were the only other inmates
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Jacqueline let me maintain my all-over tan on the flat roof of her apartment block, where we were usually overlooked by half a dozen binocular wielding men
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I don"t recall having a conversation with either of them, nor spending more than half a dozen evenings together
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Half a dozen tiles followed before he climbed down and strutted back, feet apart, hands on self-satisfied hips, smiling cheerfully down at his victim
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A big church wedding, white gown, half a dozen bridesmaids, all the trimmings—make her girlfriends so jealous they’d want to slit their wrists
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The roller-doors were up, half a dozen overall-clad workers of both sexes pushed hand trucks here and there and three vans were waiting at the loading dock to deliver or pick up bundles
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In the dead time before lunch, Malcolm practised moving his chair in a straight line, Charlie dragged irritably on half a dozen cigarettes in the smoking room, and Brenda took John to the Physiotherapist
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8 It becomes apparent, therefore, that John's announcement of the coming kingdom had not less than half a dozen different meanings in the minds of those who listened to his impassioned preaching
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care of half a dozen of such hooligans in ten seconds and yet the thought of coming to kids’ aid never
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On the deck of the pirate lay half a dozen bodies, an earnest of Conan's archery
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Leaving half a dozen men in the boat, he took the rest, ten mighty archers of Khawarizm, in spired helmets and tiger-skin cloaks
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And with such blinding speed did the serpent move that it whipped about and met him in full midair, lapping his limbs and body with half a dozen coils
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They stood among the rocky teeth that serrated the precipice brink, and from that spot a path wound up a gentle slope to a broad stair, consisting of half a dozen steps, a hundred feet across, cut out of a green jade-like substance
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Certain it was that Jesus would have accepted no less than half a dozen others, but they were unwilling to pay the price of forsaking wealth and families
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Stones and logs whirled through the air and splintered and sank half a dozen canoes, killing their occupants, and the other boats drew back out of range
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2 It was about midafternoon when Nathaniel made his speech on "Supreme Desire" to about half a dozen of the apostles and as many disciples, the ending of which was: "What is wrong with most of us is that we are only halfhearted
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By means known only to Tsotha-lanti, word had reached Tamar of the king's death, within half a dozen hours after the battle
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Three of the four were down, dying in their own blood, and the fourth was bleeding from half a dozen wounds, stumbling in headlong retreat as he parried frantically, when Conan's spur caught in the surcoat of one of the fallen men
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Not half a dozen men in the kingdom had ever known the secret of that tower
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Half a dozen men-at-arms strode out of the shadows
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Most of the time he reclined on a couch in a corner of the room with his face to the wall; he did not speak half a dozen times throughout the whole day
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He searched the desk drawers half a dozen times and found two paper clips, a chunk of hardened orange peel, a Christmas card stamped
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He walked to the middle of the triangular shaped top that could’ve only held half a dozen humans comfortably
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Jane checked the fridge, a bottle of red wine, half a dozen tins of lager, a few eggs, pack of bacon, butter and milk, past it’s sell by date
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theft ring; that was seven years ago, and involved half a dozen twelve-year-
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Half a dozen of other clients were staring at him incredulously, whispering fervently
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Rashi could have had any of half a dozen women who had expressed interest in him, but he waited for Esther
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outlaw, or has been busted for insubordination or any of half a dozen other minor infractions of the rules at some point in their career
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After saying this a half a dozen times in Federation Standard, he suddenly remembered another of Greg’s tricks
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The Colonel fielded half a dozen calls on three different communication devices before he
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Emerson suggested rather strongly to this man who out-ranked him by half a dozen pay grades that he should not lounge around, but rather get loaded as quickly as possible since he expected unwelcome visitors
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Rattigan sprinted after him and in half a dozen steps had grabbed Winthrop by the ties that held his arms
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“Not really,” Rashi said, “We can park a half a dozen near the gate to the corral and turn them on or off remotely or if we need to chase one of the cattle they could do that too
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There were half a dozen destroyers, two P I ships and a bewildering array of unarmed random scout and lightly armed pirate ships she did not know about in orbit around the planet
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The tender took half a dozen missile strikes, but since Rachel ordered all crew on all ships into space suits before the battle, no lives were lost
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“I sell by half a dozen; six for six hundred yerks
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It sounds complicated but it’s half a dozen tasks that involve not much activity except for the matching of entries to the winning combination
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” Disagreements within the group led to its breakup, but Cass went on to have a solo career, releasing over half a dozen albums with four top ten hits: Dream a Little Dream of Me, It’s Getting Better, New World Coming and Make Your Own Kind of Magic
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Half a dozen years later, he caught a cold, which turned into pleurisy and was in the hospital for almost two years
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From the CD, there were half a dozen songs I recorded and still have on cassette, including If I Were A Musician, You Can’t Go Home, After The Lights Go Down Low, Oh, What A Night, Room With A View and the title tune, in which he does a beautiful duet with Dianne Reeves
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What finally became known for sure was that a large air flotilla of Israeli combat aircraft had attacked at least half a dozen Iranian nuclear sites, causing significant damages and killing many Iranian nuclear technicians and scientists
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persons in the front of the Toyota and a half a dozen in the
