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Meanings of half a dozen in English
Synonyms
Examples for "six"
Examples for "six"
1
New South Wales state reported six new cases and Queensland reported one.
2
Last good league: Promoted last year for first time in six years.
3
I called the police six days ago to report a troubling situation.
4
However, the process can take six months or longer in some cases.
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So far this year, only six venture capital-backed companies have gone public.
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Kid Wolf was marched to the prison by his sextet of guards.
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This sextet is the latest example of the country's international flavor.
3
A sextet for strings and flute has been played with favor.
4
In all, he and his sextet had captured nineteen prisoners and twenty horses.
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I didn't tell him it had been a sextet that night.
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Let me in. She let the sixer of beer swing from her finger.
2
I dunno why, for she had no protection that a sixer would not penetrate.
3
Something about a tan, an endless stream of bikinis, and a sixer of Corona.
4
I been think you in for a sixer.
5
Before long he had overtaken his fellow-"sixer," and almost immediately drew up to our champion.
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Within the Petrarchan form's basic octave-sestet structure there are other sub-divisions possible.
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The octave is made up of two quatrains and the sestet of two tercets.
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The octave is sometimes said to consist of two quatrains, and the sestet of two tercets.
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The sestet, though it contains but six lines, is more liberal in the disposition of its rimes.
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In the sestet this is permissible, provided that there is not a riming couplet at the close.
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And huge thanks to Katie Sise, who helped bring this book into the world.
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Most of all, a big thanks to Katie Sise-withoutyou, this book wouldn't exist.
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But it did not happen, and energy analyst Greg Sise said he now thought it wouldn't.
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The loans were made to three private companies, largely owned by the Mozambican security services, Sise.
5
Send me prises on rings of large sises.
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The family blog claims nearly all sextuplet pregnancies result in a cesarean delivery; with only three cases of natural delivery of sextuplets.
2
According to Verywellfamily.com, the average gestation for a sextuplet pregnancy is 29.1 weeks, as opposed to 40 weeks for a full-term baby.
3
But sextuplets are rarer than media reports would lead you to believe.
4
There was a case a of sextuplets in Italy in 1844.
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Before the sextuplets, you spoke about a heartbreaking miscarriage you suffered with your twins.
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When Sabotino came under the responsibility of VI Corps, Capello became involved.
2
Reduction in VI was due to decreased VT; RR did not change.
3
We will be at the court of the good King Henry VI.
4
The Spanish king, Felipe VI, has also remained silent on the issue.
5
Gradually, the valuation of TPG Partners VI improved, and investors took note.
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That won't be necessary, Captain Hicks.
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Upon this Captain Mordaunt, recollecting me, said there was a young midshipman, a favourite of Captain Hicks, of that name on board.
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Captain Hicks had always been a Father to me, and loved me as if I had been his own child.
4
The captains Hicks and Juniper, who happened to be nearest the mole, immediately manned their pinnaces, and entered the fortifications sword in hand.
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" Captain Hicks," Hicks replied in Universal.
Usage of half a dozen in English
1
Jeannie had to ask me half a dozen times to repeat myself.
2
We were prepared, braced, to answer questions in half a dozen tongues.
3
Norton read the message half a dozen times to memorize the date.
4
You will find half a dozen companions in misfortune in the prison.
5
Since 2005, at least half a dozen overseers have come and gone.
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Yet half a dozen times this evening you went to the window!
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Like many Mexican sides, America have half a dozen South American players.
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Are you looking forward to servicing half a dozen men-atone time?
9
He's got half a dozen sets of building blocks at home, too.
10
In the living-room they found Louise Sampson and half a dozen girls.
11
We tried it, and lost half a dozen animals in the attempt.
12
He takes half a dozen bounds forward, which brings him to Ronder.
13
It rang half a dozen times; then her voice mail picked up.
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The woman had half a dozen photographs of him in her possession.
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The whole thing had occurred in less than half a dozen heart-beats.
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This time around only half a dozen have done so, she said.