dozen

Converse of object

• injure: Ten people were killed and over a dozen injured by a parachute mine at South Merstham in April of 1941.
• seize: Direct home billing seized two dozen are not interested.
• kill: The bear had been blamed for killing dozens of sheep.
• introduce: Each year we introduce dozens of new toys, yet many of our original designs have remained consistently popular for two decades.
• contain: PAWS Animal Shelter contains dozens of cats within three small rooms.
• arrest: Home Office Minister Beverley Hughes told Assignment the government was working closely with the police and has arrested dozens of traffickers.

Adjective modifier

• dirty: The dirty dozen Tim Atkin on wines with pulling power plus his 12 top bottles for seduction.
• several: At this time the black spiky larvae can often be seen basking in clusters of several dozen.
• few: Membership of the group grew from a few dozen In the 1940s to around 700 at the turn of the century.

Modifies a noun

• yard: Christie made a powerful run to the bye line and from his cutback Thomas scored with a shot from a dozen yards.
• egg: Do you know sir, I put six dozen eggs in that cask.
• bottle: In PP, their original supplies taken to the gold fields included three dozen bottles of ginger pop.
• mile: The history of dozen miles of hawaii dinner cruise head back down.
• meter: Please allow for a small error in the co-ordinates of up to a couple of dozen meters.
• species: Altogether, more than a dozen species of mammal have been recorded.

Noun used with modifier

• half: I must get a half dozen offers of University Diplomas each week.

Possessives

• baker: If you have a baker's dozen or so of good poems, why spread them thin, or sit on them?

Preposition: of

• Albanian: The police reportedly burned homes and killed dozens of ethnic Albanians in these raids.
• toy: Each year we introduce dozens of new toys, yet many of our original designs have remained consistently popular for two decades.
• stall: There was a full program of entertainment with dozens of stalls and attractions for everyone.