What is "half dozen"

Usage examples of "half dozen".

And there were the half dozen teenage boys sitting around Slughorn with Tom Riddle in the midst of them, Marvolo's gold-and-black ring gleaming on his finger.

They returned to the common room, which was empty apart from a half dozen seventh years, including Katie Bell, the only remaining member of the original Gryffindor Quidditch team that Harry had joined in his first year.

When he looked back, he saw that he had missed the monster, expecting it to be much taller, and that they were surrounded by a half dozen of the creatures who had maneuvered into a horseshoe shape while Grant had been distracted by the one in front.

These thirty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-eight active young men, who were likely to find the confines of a State too narrow for them, were cooped up on thirteen acres of ground--less than a farmer gives for play- ground for a half dozen colts or a small flock of sheep.

Rounding a corner, he was just in time to see the elevator he'd been seeking disgorge a half dozen Qasamans barely ten meters away from him.

Based on the number of employees, there are at least a half dozen pumps available, as well as a dozen or so recovery tanks for storage of recovered refrigerant.

But more, there were a half dozen other young Jesuits, five of them from the English College and thus able to handle the language more effectively, whom the order was subsidizing to spend their days sitting in Grantville's libraries.

The shots ceased after a half dozen, and the door was giving, slowly.

I was surprised to see a half dozen men gathered around the berth in which I had wakened, number seven.