How to Use several dozen in a Sentence

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  • There were some reports from Hamas that several dozen have been killed in the air strikes.
    ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • By dawn several dozen men regrouped by some cottages on the edge of the city.
    Oleksandr Chubko Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • This is the equivalent of taking several dozen gas cars off the road.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
  • Boelts employs several dozen people on the farm, 30 of them year-round.
    Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Dornoch is one of several dozen race horses owned in part by Two Eight Racing.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Video of the event shows several dozen people gathered around the Solovetsky Stone, which was heaped with flowers.
    Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The Times followed up with a 5,600-word front-page story, in which reporter Ted Rohrlich fact-checked several dozen claims in Davis’ books.
    Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Are any of them still viable, buried under the moon’s regolith, the dust that varies in depth from a few metres to several dozen metres?
    Laurent Palka, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • At Molasses Key, the team quickly found several dozen adult conchs and loaded them into oversized blue milk crates to haul back to the boat.
    Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • More than a decade of watching several dozen pulsars has yet to turn up a firm detection.
    Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Though lead lines have been replaced at tens of thousands of homes, the city still hasn't completed outreach to several dozen homes.
    Paul Egan, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
  • This year climbers enjoyed an early weather window, and several dozen reached the top on May 13.
    Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 26 June 2024
  • Since the Sandy Hook shooting, there have been more than 4,200 mass shootings in the United States, including several dozen at schools.
    Alice Gainer, CBS News, 12 June 2024
  • At least five people have been reported killed in the last week, according to a CNN count, and several dozen wounded.
    Andrew Carey and Maria Kostenko, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
  • And that all came about because residents saw a charter bus go through town, stop at a local gas station, and several dozen men got out of the bus.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • Thursday, several dozen media members stood by on the field and in the stands to watch Fujinami throw a bullpen session.
    Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2023
  • In addition to two fields of sage, Woodward-Taylor has several dozen seedlings ready to transplant into the field.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Kyiv said hundreds of Russian troops were killed or wounded, while Moscow said several dozen were killed.
    Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Meanwhile, several dozen startups in the space have raised half a billion dollars in the past year, according to Crunchbase.
    Byirina Ivanova, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The event was attended by several dozen supporters, who packed the cramped upstairs room of the Greenwich Village club.
    oregonlive, 23 June 2023
  • None of those measures has passed at the halfway point of the legislative session, while several dozen GOP proposals are still alive.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The move has the potential to result in several dozen workers leaving the company.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Mike Keneally has made several dozen albums as a band leader and has been featured on 200 or so more by other artists.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The contractors’ event took place in a banquet hall of several dozen people, mostly men, mostly white, many burly or tattooed.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The following month, the school said several dozen transfer students who had been assigned to live in the motel had moved into on-campus housing.
    Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The city itself is located right next to the border of Slovakia and several dozen kilometers from Hungary.
    Wojciech Delikta, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2023
  • City contractors removed several dozen camps from the wetlands, meadows, forests and trails.
    Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
  • In some cases, budgeting can entail thousands of slides; AI can cut that number to several dozen.
    Paul Hudson, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The motorcade was greeted by a mix of several dozen, loud demonstrators and onlookers on the sidewalk.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Over three hundred people and several dozen dogs participated in the 5K in Chelsea.
    Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 26 May 2024

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