And she received the bouquet he had sent her -- a dozen red roses.

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In biology every solid clue emerges after a dozen red herrings that can waste years of effort.

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"Think 'Officer and a Gentleman' a man in a white dress uniform showing up at my graduation with three dozen red roses, " says Ms. Madsen, 50 and an author and blogger about topics including female sexuality.

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Not only did I use rose petals and rosewater as called for in the recipe, I also garnished the dish with an extra dozen tiny red buds.

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Brian, James, and Mark selected a team of two dozen SEALs from Red Squadron and told them to report to a densely forested site in North Carolina for a training exercise on April 10th. (Red Squadron is one of four squadrons in DEVGRU, which has about three hundred operators in all.) None of the SEALs, besides James and Mark, were aware of the C.

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Contrary to the West's perception of Kurosawa as a prophet unappreciated in his own land, every one of a dozen films, from Rashomon to Red Beard 15 years later, was a smash hit.

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists a dozen types of night monkeys on its Red List of threatened species.

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Since 1981, I've ridden all or parts of about a dozen Ragbrais, rolling through towns like Red Oak, Decorah, Oskaloosa and Clarinda.

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He said the bill would cut red tape and consolidate more than a dozen outdated pieces of legislation governing co-operatives and mutuals.

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Each is home to half a dozen lolling bathers, their blissed-out, parboiled faces as red as the setting sun behind.

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