half-dozen
半打,半打的,半数以上,半数
Definitions
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- : one half of a dozen; six.
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- : considering six as a unit; consisting of six.
Examples
Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.
My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.
Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
There were at least a dozen ladies seated round the big table at the Parsonage.
All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.