State-funded studios had collapsed with the fall of communism, and cinemas were closing by the dozen.
British lawyers went on television and radio by the dozen to express their horror at American courtroom procedures.
Black and gold paraphernalia is flying off the shelves at Beads by the Dozen, said store owner Dan Kelly.
They are being gunned down by the dozen as they march with olive branches and demand change they can believe in.
As for Italy, its glory radiated in the 15th century when the Grand Canal teemed with sailing vessels by the dozen.
These second- or third-home buyers are all getting pitched by the dozen or so other developers putting up condo spires in Vegas.
Up until the last couple of months venture capitalists were adopting promising young children by the dozen--and letting them fend for themselves.
More importantly, starting a cellar is by far the most cost-effective way of buying wine, as purchasing by the dozen automatically qualifies for a discount.
Director Adam Shankman has several cheesy skeletons in his closet ("Cheaper by the Dozen 2, " for example) but he was a choreographer first, and it shows.
Professional investors today find it easier to groom fresh (and cheap) young hustlers by the dozen than to work with battle-scarred veterans of either the startup or corporate scenes.
Sarah Krieger, a national spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, recommends borrowing ideas and inspiration from the countless cooking resources online, which offer recipes by the dozen as well as tips on technique.
My kids have entered that nebulous no-mans-zone known as the middle grade (or tween) years: too old for simple chapter books (like The Magic Tree House series), but too young to demolish YA books about vampires by the dozen.
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This means that Dunkin Donuts uses coffee to bring customers into its stores, and eventually end up selling them both coffee and donuts, while Krispy Kreme uses donuts (mostly sold by the dozen) to bring customers into its stores and eventually sells them both items.
"If they really reactivate their (plutonium) reactor and expand whatever uranium enrichment capability they have and they go into business of making nuclear weapons by the dozen for their own purposes or for sale, we have a whole different ball game, " O'Hanlon told a seminar in Washington on Monday.
By now the two dozen crewmen, mesmerized by the arrival of the three figures, had abandoned all interest in road work.
After dark, locals out for a night on the town mix with visitors drawn by the smoke wafting from the dozen-plus satay grills lining the complex's western edge.
In the town of Larne, a 22-year-old Protestant man was first pursued, then kicked on the ground by a dozen men and shot in the head.
According to the report, which was compiled by more than two dozen scientists, the 2011 runaway bloom was fueled by phosphorus-laden fertilizers that were swept from corn and soybean fields during heavy rainstorms.
Museums, copyists, restorers and dealers watched with interest as the price of Stradivari violins soared, pulling along behind them the violins made by several dozen other Italian craftsmen working between the 16th and 18th centuries.
"I could easily turn off the power in a couple dozen cities by the end of the day, " says Larsen.
And so, in a cruel twist, a country that has long sought redress for the past abduction of a few dozen citizens by the North Korean state tacitly supports vast numbers of abductions each year at home.
One such argument, advanced by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, suggests that the Navy should be able to get by with fewer supercarriers since no other nation has even one (the dozen carriers operated by other navies are far less capable).
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Barbier has heard testimony by more than a dozen witnesses called by the Justice Department and private attorneys for Gulf Coast residents and businesses.
The remaining places in the bottom dozen are firmly held by the Caucasus which is joined by Stavropol and Kalmykia.
The panel was also told it was "nonsense" for Dr Ikwueke to claim he could not now recall the details of more than dozen visits by Peter to the surgery.
So successful, in fact, that it has been adopted as the disclosure reporting regime by about a dozen significant oil and natural gas producing states, and is being considered for adoption by the Department of Interior as a part of its own pending regulation on hydraulic fracturing and well completions.
The Gujarat violence was sparked by the death of several dozen Hindu activists in an arson attack on a train coming back from Ayodhya.
Nigel was still having some difficulty understanding how the Democrats are considered to have won the election by ending up with a dozen fewer House seats than the Republicans--something that would not be true in the parliamentary system.
Along with the Bagleys were about a dozen local folks chosen by the Gore campaign for the "family issues" campaign stop.
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The birds were fed by Bungay resident Gordon Knowles until the last half dozen of the birds were handed in to an animal charity about two years ago.
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