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Meanings of baker's dozen in English
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Examples for "thirteen"
Examples for "thirteen"
1
Twelve years later it said the oil would last another thirteen years.
2
The great palace stood in Jerusalem; it occupied thirteen years in building.
3
It was impossible to believe that it had been only thirteen days.
4
Results: Of the included studies, eight of the thirteen had meta-analyzable data.
5
Before these recent murders, Gayner hadn't seen a homicide in thirteen years.
1
Fund XIV plans to follow Fund XIII's strategy, according to the sources.
2
Other cases of worms in the bladder are mentioned in Chapter XIII
3
In the opening paragraph of Chapter XIII of the book, Dickens writes:
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Aged 17, he toured Australia with Great Britain Universities and Colleges XIII.
5
Women filled but a small space in the life of Louis XIII.
Usage of baker's dozen in English
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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