Unit of amount for 13 pieces.
1 It is the equivalent of the thirteenth roll in a ' baker 's dozen . '
2 They're scarcely a baker 's dozen , and none of them has skill to lead.
3 A baker 's dozen of 12-volt batteries mounted behind the driver's chair provide the power.
4 The previous year the British had not a baker 's dozen .
5 There's but a baker 's dozen of troopers and troop horses left at the post.
6 We saw a knot of others, about a baker 's dozen in number, tippling under an arbour.
7 There he found a baker 's dozen of boys of his own age, who greeted him joyously.
8 And so he proceeds, until the baker 's dozen of trout lie on the boards at his feet.
9 It was art by the baker 's dozen .
10 A baker 's dozen of captains, six hundred odd lieutenants, and five hundred who dropped by the way.
11 That meant good packing, and snow fights, snow men, and a baker 's dozen of other exciting amusements.
12 On the other hand, it is perfectly true that only a baker 's dozen of these have got themselves told.
13 They have about ten "members" at present; when the " baker 's dozen " will be reached is a mystery.
14 Which reminds one that more than a baker 's dozen of modern comedians, so called, are nothing less than mimics.
15 You might place a baker 's dozen of the huge Falls of Niagara in the Grand Canyon and scarcely notice they were there.
16 In one they'd found a baker 's dozen of teary-eyed, teenaged Romanian girls, living in rags and filth, and grateful to be freed.
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