Synonyms for half a dozen
half a dozen

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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

   Synonyms:
   six, sise, sextet, hexad, sixsome, six-spot, sextuplet, sestet, sixer, sextette

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1. Brian Howard:

   Let's say you want to know what people in Kenya think about their government's performance -- with half a dozen clicks of your mouse, you can find out. Our data is a public good -- we want people to use it -- that's the whole point of doing the surveys.

2. Wendy Young:

   I've been working on this issue for 30 years. I can only think of maybe half a dozen cases where one of the unaccompanied kids has actually been put up for adoption, that's usually done when there's evidence that the parents are dead, and there's no other family member who can attain guardianship.

3. James Murray:

   I'm aware that in mid-to-late December, a lot of the agencies here -- to include US Capitol Police, Secret Service, Metropolitan Police Department -- they were involved in pre-coordination meetings about what could happen in the National Capital Region on January 6, i think there were more than half a dozen of those meetings.

4. 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.

5. Colin Barnett:

   It's only now that we see investment in about half a dozen hotels either in construction or going into construction. There was very little space for tourism, particularly middle income, lower cost, family-type accommodation and transport.