The ancient Egyptian ruler Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children.
In Cave No. 328, Mr. Liu showed us a Buddha set on a low platform surrounded by a half-dozen attendants.
Civilization uses RVMF to indicate a half-dozen things about a city, all represented visually. If a city is more advanced, its architecture is more modern. If it is larger, the icon is larger and more embellished. If there is civil unrest, smoke rises from the city.
A person walking around may want to jump between a half-dozen access points in a few minutes.
To top it off, the swarm minis are Commons, which makes it easier to get a half-dozen to carpet your dungeon corridor.
"an order of soup a fifty cents or a dollar, with a dozen kinds to choose from; oysters in forty styles and at sixty cents the half-dozen; entrees, fish, and meats at prices which would house one over night in an average hotel."
If you write a half-dozen programs, each of which sorts lines, you can end up having to fix similar bugs half a dozen times instead of having one better-maintained sort program to work on.
There are six digital videorecorders, four stereo receivers, an HD DVD player, a Blu-ray player, a half-dozen PCs and just as many Macs.
We tend to ignore the fact that our cellular telephone doesn’t work like a landline phone; instead, it is actually a radio transceiver that might swap connections between a half-dozen different cellular base antennas in the course of a two-minute call. Knowing this doesn’t help us to understand how to use the phone.
A half-dozen anonymous workers scout ahead to check possible hive locations in hollow trees or wall cavities.
Indeed, the Tigers' attack near Omanthai was retaliation for the army's latest half-dozen failed attempts.
Each Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, the owner of Canela Bakery in Gaithersburg (formerly Cazuela Bakery) sends at least a half-dozen to the stand she rents in the Bethesda market.
So automotive radios were offered with a newfangled panel consisting of a half-dozen chrome-plated buttons, each of which would twist the tuner to a preset station.
In fall 2009, a mysterious artist called How to Dress Well posted a free EP called the Eternal Love, and a half-dozen more EPs followed on the project's blog in the next six months.
On our night walkabout underneath the Southern Cross, we saw a half-dozen big gray kangaroos feeding on brush.
In the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she may need at least a half-dozen envoys.