What is "two dozen"

Usage examples of "two dozen".

The hum of two dozen computerized work stations suddenly revving for action was even enough to briefly rouse the tranquilized guard.

I counted two dozen men beside the wagon drovers, and I saw from their gear and horses, and the fashion of their swords, that they are Dry-town mercenaries.

Along the wide corridor that led to the massive double front doors, two dozen nuns and novices peered out of doorways, all of them wide-eyed with fear, some of them weeping.

They only partially broke the fall of nearly two dozen feet, though, and Wulfgar hit hard, twisting and slamming painfully as he and the orcs below him went down to the floor.

Altogether there were about two dozen standing on the wide grassy floor of the dingle, and as many more were marching in.

He could see how the light of many candles filled the place, and could hear how some two dozen feet ran hither and thither through the echoing cellar.

In the field where the horses used to stretch their legs, two dozen Quonset huts that have popped up like mushrooms.

Almost the entire population of the Grantville area was present, with the exception of a handful of men at the power plant and perhaps two dozen members of Mike's mine workers.

I had spoken two dozen words to her and already I felt that I knew the lights and shades in her voice, - I, who had always known how a woman rode to hounds, and who never could have told the color of her hair.

Gavin persisted in his attempts to date her, phoning her at home, sometimes two dozen times a night, then extending his attempts to early-morning wake-up calls in which he wept and proclaimed his love for her.

For every day of one manic week, he had two dozen roses delivered to St.

One by one, his two dozen fellow explorers backed down the ladder into the summer heat.