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twelve - use in sentences
Converse of object
- strike: It is in these last chapters that you struck twelve.
- comprise: This modern complex comprises twelve self-catering apartments, a number of which have panoramic views over the Mourne River.
- identify: In the original Land Utilization Survey of Northern Ireland, Symons ( 1962 ) identified twelve such natural regions.
- kill: Another company in a month had twelve killed by gas, twenty-eight sent to hospital, and sixty minor cases retained with the unit.
- age: The three girls, aged respectively twelve, ten and nine years, daughters of St Sophia who were martyred in Rome under Hadrian.
- choose: Moreover Ahith'ophel said to Ab'salom, " Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.
Adjective modifier
- least: Non thermal effects by category These may be divided into at least twelve major categories of effect.
- past: Pauline Stacey fell from this floor to the ground at five minutes past twelve.
Modifies a noun
- month: Your marriage must then take place within twelve months of the date you gave notice.
- apostle: How many of the twelve apostles wrote an account of the episode?
- disciple: In fact, only the New Testament tells us there were twelve disciples.
- inch: I felt I was walking twelve inches off the ground.
- mile: By the end of 2002, all the EU's fishing fleets will be able to fish in our twelve mile coastal belt.
Preposition: per
- cent: This is expected to increase, with over twelve per cent offering this facility by 2003.
Noun used with modifier
- heat: Jonas Davidsson headed heat twelve up the back straight, only for Schlein to dive inside on the third turn.
- chapter: Chapter twelve closes off by looking at security design for the system overall.
- verse: In verses twelve to seventeen we have a wonderful picture of communion with the king.
- strike: Did I mention the weathercock on Queen Camel church, which goes to drink for the river when it hears the clock strike twelve?
- age: At age twelve He announced it publicly to His parents and the learned teachers of His day.
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