What is "twelves"

Usage examples of "twelves".

He had not had a major malfunction in three twelves of twelve watches.

Once it had boasted ten, but that had been before the visit of Great Lord Vaskeel's fleet untold high twelves of years before.

It was barely three twelves of years old, and though electronic and neutrino emissions had been detected (which was bad enough), there had been none of the more advanced signals from the scanner arrays.

Yet to risk a half-twelve of twelves of scouts in this fashion took courage.

The Nest had survived for uncountable higher twelves of years only by slaying its enemies while they were yet weak.

The nest-killers were dying by twelves, yet they had cut deep into his formation.

Six twelves of his ships had already perished, and the terrible harvest of the nest-killer beams was only starting.

These strange bipeds had destroyed Lord Chirdan's force with scarcely five twelves of ships.

Admittedly, they were huge, yet it had taken but five twelves, when Lord Chirdan had been within day-twelfths of destroying this world.

And his own losses were scarcely three greater twelves, grievous but hardly fatal.

For untold higher twelves of years, your Protectors have ravaged our suns, killed our planets, slain our Nests.

They died by great twelves, and now other ships were firing, raking the floating clouds of killers with death.

Four twelves, at least, sweeping towards him behind the glare of their thunder, huge as moons, driving lances of the Furnace's Fire deep into his fleet.

For untold higher twelves of years, Battle Comp had been keeper of the Way, and the Nest had endured.

It was even worse, a few twelves of days ago, when the big ship was cutting near the Sun to change its orbit.