two dozen
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dos docenas
- And so by the time I got home, there were two dozen roses sitting at my front door.
- more than two dozen
- nearly two dozen
- about two dozen
There's like two dozen press releases each week.
- There's like two dozen press releases each week.
- I've used them probably two dozen times.
- There's also Amazon, Cooper, Samsung, One Web in the Astro Tech and two dozen more companies.
- A pack of two dozen dread wolves streamed like ants through the forest, all headed straight for the deer.
- And where there are two dozen books on this list that I just read.
- But I would say at least one to two dozen have fallen under this.
- It's from your two dozen past customers.
- Like they can literally put, you know, like two dozen people following somebody around for a year.
- Now, over over two dozen of those medals were won by African American women.
- We've got over two dozen different books from toddlers to to teen books as well.
- Because, I mean, you, you're basically the work that you did is responsible for over two dozen prosecutions, Right.
Examples
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His editorial board service includes over two dozen journals, and he is the editor-in-chief of three other journals.
Academic text (2011) -
She bought two dozen eggs to make a large cake.
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And where there are two dozen books on this list that I just read.
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And it's like two dozen of them over the past year.
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There are over two dozen of them around Europe.
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There should be two dozen people.
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I communicate every day with two dozen people all over the world.
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More than two dozen volunteers packed bags with all the fixings, even to make the perfect Christmas dinner.
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We've got over two dozen different books from toddlers to to teen books as well.
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The noise made by the two dozen people was deafening: children crying and adults scolding.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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A number equal to twenty plus four
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A number equal to twenty plus four
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A Roman numeral that stands for 24
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'twenty-four' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'two' (the number 2) with 'dozen' (a group of twelve), i.e., two times twelve. This simple multiplicative/counting construction is common across languages and follows basic numeric composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Two dozen comes from the old counting word dozen, which meant twelve items. People often sold things in groups of twelve, so two dozen simply means two groups of twelve, or 'twenty-four'.