Below you will find example sentences with "dozen people". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Dozen People in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: dozen
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "dozen people" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a dozen people are considered, a few dozen people chanting slogans, two, half and off stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with young people, homeless people, indigenous people, two dozen, half dozen and few dozen, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with dozen people
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
At the same time, more than three dozen people were injured. (11 words)
Approximately two dozen people attended including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). (14 words)
A dozen people are considered small and famous people in the arena but compared with the three. (17 words)
If we had this kind of situation again, half a dozen people within a day or so identified within a venue, what the list does is allow us to move quickly to contact people, telling them to self-isolate and try to put a lid on it. (47 words)
He said what used to be a few dozen people chanting slogans and holding placards had of recent taken the shape of almost a guerrilla warfare with massive crowd brutalising people and burning down businesses and buildings leading to loss of lives. (42 words)
Nearly a dozen people at an assisted living facility for people with mental illnesses in B.C. say their local health authority exaggerated the true cost of renovations to justify closing their space so the building could be sold. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
There's only about a half dozen of us, but those half a dozen people know a lot of right-wing activists across the country.
In March, a ferry carrying about 250 people also caught fire in southern Philippines, leading to the deaths more than two dozen people including a six-month old baby.
Nearly a dozen people at an assisted living facility for people with mental illnesses in B.C. say their local health authority exaggerated the true cost of renovations to justify closing their space so the building could be sold.
He said what used to be a few dozen people chanting slogans and holding placards had of recent taken the shape of almost a guerrilla warfare with massive crowd brutalising people and burning down businesses and buildings leading to loss of lives.
A dozen people are considered small and famous people in the arena but compared with the three.
Cruise ship rescues 24 people from boat off Florida coastA Carnival Cruise Line ship rescued two dozen people, including two children, from a sinking boat 37 miles off the Florida coast, the.
If we had this kind of situation again, half a dozen people within a day or so identified within a venue, what the list does is allow us to move quickly to contact people, telling them to self-isolate and try to put a lid on it.
Quickly, Rego’s nursing instincts took over and she gathered the dozen people working on the unit that day — the nurses, the cleaners, the support people — into a room with Leis and the other physician.
I’ve heard a half a dozen people tell me in the last week where the homeless people are and where they weren’t when the Ross camp was operating,” Krohn said Friday.
Twenty-two people died and more than two dozen people were injured in a shooting in an El Paso Walmart in early August.
He also set up a to warn people and said he's found more than a dozen people who've lost money to her.
More than 50 people attended the Albany workshop on-property at Youngs Siding, while about a dozen people attended each of the workshops in Jerdacuttup and at Esperance.
Ultimately, not that many people even saw the show — it was small and pulled maybe a dozen people every weekend for its four-weekend run.
About a dozen people rallied at the Manitoba Legislative building Friday morning to protest the province's ban against homegrown cannabis.
About a dozen people were evacuated from the home and a 42-year-old man was arrested on outstanding warrants.
Approximately two dozen people attended including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).
At a school in the center of Guatemala City, about a dozen people waited for polls to open.
At the same time, more than three dozen people were injured.
A Ukrainian flag flies above a few dozen people gathered for a vigil Friday held in support for Ukraine on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the country at the Pioneers Museum.
A video posted online showed about a dozen people jumping on top of Cenat’s car, before one fell off.