It's an exclusive club, with notably loyal members--a couple dozen attend a get-together every year.
Instead it has a couple dozen, says Texas Transportation Institute research engineer Tim Lomax.
We're Dominicans, Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Nicaraguans, Salvadorans, Brazilian and a couple dozen other possibilities drawn from this hemisphere.
This year we also had a couple dozen new sponsors enter the sport.
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For that matter, the beer can be made by a homebrewer in a batch of just a couple dozen bottles.
We had a decent-sized staff of a couple dozen by that time, and we thought we were ready for something of that scale.
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Since then only a couple dozen specialty hospitals have been built.
Meanwhile, lines were shorter at the stores of the phone's U.S. wireless carriers in both midtown Manhattan and in San Francisco, where only a couple dozen waited.
"There's a perception that we're in on a couple dozen starting pitchers, three dozen outfielders and infielders, 17, 18 catchers, " GM Ned Colletti said during the winter meetings.
There were 100 items on the list from bottle caps to paper clips, and the first camper to deliver them all was slated for a couple dozen candy bars.
But on the games publishing side, ngmoco has a strong library of its own games with a couple dozen titles, whereas OpenFeint has stopped developing games to focus on platform.
It sounds bizarre to say this about a player with a couple dozen starts, but he was the most popular player on the roster last season, and transformed the franchise in the space of weeks.
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But if you have analyzed a dozen or a couple dozen bull markets, I am much less inclined to think you have a valid argument, and that our current gold run could easily fall below the low end of the range.
With the death of most search engines (there were a couple dozen players in the 1990s) and the consolidation of the search market primarily in the hands of Google (for all its efforts, Microsoft only comes in second with about 20% of the market), discovery of website is substantially more difficult.
The inspector generals who have been looking at each one of these projects -- there's a panel of 10 inspector generals that reviews this -- there's very, very few -- I mean, less than a couple dozen that have been referred for further investigation, based on all the reports of any fraud coming in as a conduct of the program.
The difference between making it back onto the tour and being demoted to the Nationwide might only be a couple of dozen golf shots over the course of a season, but the financial repercussions are huge.
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There was one bloke picking up a phone, calling a couple of dozen retailers, writing down what they had sold on a piece of paper and then compiling it into a chart.
There are only a couple of dozen stocks among the holdings in the fund, and New Zealand is a small fraction of the world index.
There are a couple of dozen micro miniatures in the museum, each one in rich detail.
The thieves beat him up as a couple of dozen people looked on and did nothing to intervene.
Only a couple of dozen people every year become Knight Bachelors, and Paul McCartney is already one of them.
The manga-inspired Korean drama Boys Over Flowers is 100% subtitled in a couple of dozen languages including Persian and Tagalog.
He wanted to be known as a writer, and wrote a couple of dozen books, more than his hero Hemingway did.
Mr Rajapaksa had gutted the opposition to form a government, enticing a couple of dozen UNP and JVP parliamentarians to join his coalition.
And, let's face it, it's easier and quicker to view a couple of dozen pictures rather than read that number of text entries.
Here, the heroine of the previous films, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), crash-lands on a godforsaken planet whose population consists of a couple of dozen mean-looking convicts running some sort of dilapidated foundry.
When we owned and operated a fried chicken franchise, one of our promotions involved 800 gallons of iced tea, 20, 000 nickels, and a couple of dozen high school cheerleaders and dance team members.
The movie is cheery, convivial, and swift: for ninety minutes, stunning images, drawn from all eras of movie history, pass before us, and we listen to a couple of dozen veteran cinematographers speaking about what they do.
He was one of a couple of dozen young islanders to take part in the Haka Pei, many of whom had already competed in other gruelling physical activities before striding up Maunga Pu, the volcano used every year for the Tapati toboggan run.
Both predicting the future of work and designing for it (whether as a corporate HR executive, a coffee shop owner, a vendor of virtual-work technologies or an entrepreneur developing a co-working space) involves thinking about a messy and complicated bundle of ideas with at least a couple of dozen major dimensions.
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