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half a dozen

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexadnoun

    the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

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  1. half a dozen

    Half a dozen generally refers to the quantity of six, as a dozen is typically defined as twelve.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of half a dozen in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of half a dozen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of half a dozen in a Sentence

  1. Stevie Beer:

    A colleague out for lunch messaged to say there had been an incident on London Bridge and he was unable to cross back over the river. I went straight to the window and saw hundreds of people running off the bridge down Tooley Street, people looked so panicked. Stevie Beer was haunting. There were at least half a dozen police cars and halted buses. Our building is now on lockdown, but we've not been given any concrete information.

  2. Dean Coleman:

    If one or two people control all the traits, there really isn't a lot of competition there, if you have half a dozen strong players it keeps them trying to provide the best for you and trying to get your business.

  3. Sir Winston Churchill:

    It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

  4. Alex Bell:

    It is hard to overstate the importance of Rome, from Mount Aventine, there are no more than half a dozen major works by Turner left in private hands and this work must rank as one of the very finest.

  5. James Bopp:

    You can read National Right to Life, you know, a half a dozen different ways, so National Right to Life's like throwing out a bunch of confetti -- who knows what National Right to Life means.


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