Around the billiard tables were always at least a couple of dozen beribboned generals.

The town served as a supply depot during the period, and it included a post office, a depot, a blacksmith shop and stable, a couple of general stores, two saloons, a school, a Methodist church, and about a dozen houses.

These illegally made Croatian weapons " also ended up in the Dutch criminal world: between 1998 and 2000, a couple dozen ‘ Croatian UZIs ’ were seized ".

During this time perhaps only a couple dozen buildings were built.

However, many smaller, non-unionized, manufacturing businesses have survived this transition such as Maxon Corporation, Duffy Tool ( now North American Stamping ), Reber Machine & Tool, MAGNA Powertrain, and a dozen or so other shops that employ anywhere from a few dozen to a couple of hundred workers.

In the three officially unilingual language areas, a couple of dozen municipalities in the vicinity of another language area must provide limited facilities for speakers of that other language.

Up to a couple of dozen coins could be produced at one time from a single mold, when a ' tree ' of coins ( which often contained features such as a square hole in the centre ) would be produced and the individual coins ( called cash ) would then be broken off.

The couple were not welcomed back in the neighborhood and " were said to have become a part of another little colony which has since grown to about three dozen unpainted shanties called Little Ireland on a depressed piece of ground east of the Central tracks and north of West Genesee Street.

Since 1975, a couple of dozen Turkish diplomats or members of their families had been targeted in a couple of dozens of attacks, with the outcome that the Armenian revenge, as well as the background to the Armenian struggle, have made it through the world press.

There are a couple dozen masculine nouns, primarily titles and kin terms, such as sinjoro " Mr, sir " vs. sinjorino " Mrs, lady " and patro " father " vs. patrino " mother ".

Inside, the features included " Daniel's Diary ", " Moans from the Martyr ", two yarns, a couple of dozen cartoons and " Leno's Latest – Fresh Jokes and Wheezes Made on the Premises ".

A number of British meetings, probably more than a couple of dozen since 1994, have celebrated same-sex relationships through an official meeting for commitment – a public act of worship something very like the traditional Quaker wedding, but without legal significance.

* Big Bend Gambusia ( increased from a couple dozen to a population of over 50, 000 )

During this time perhaps only a couple dozen buildings were built.

In modern usage, most noun roots are lexically neuter, a couple dozen are lexically masculine, and a smaller number lexically feminine.

The bulk of the content consists of treatments of the 130-odd families known to occur in North America ( a couple dozen are not known from North America, and are not described ); the descriptive material applies worldwide, and there are brief notes about non-North American family members.

With the help of Synchromy, each of the specific Sheer codecs can input and output all supported uncompressed pixel formats-currently a couple dozen.

Only a couple dozen men arrive to join them.

These include the well-known Bauyn manuscript, and a very large number of less known sources, some reliable ( such as the only unbowdlerized text for Méditation sur ma mort future, presumably in Weckmann's hand, or the Strasbourg manuscript of some couple of dozen of suites, possibly compiled by Michael Bulyowsky ) and some not very much so.

He began with Forbidden Area ( October 4, 1956 ), adapted by Serling from the Pat Frank novel about Soviet sabotage, following with Rendezvous in Black ( October 25, 1956 ), adapted from Cornell Woolrich's novel of twisted revenge ; Eloise ( November 22, 1956 ), adapted from the book by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight ; and The Family Nobody Wanted ( December 20, 1956 ), from the Helen Doss book about a childless couple who adopt a dozen children of mixed ancestry, a book brought to TV again in 1975.

expansion before the infrastructure would be severely tested, and over the next few years a Heritage Marquee was set up for the NCCPG and its national collections – initially a rather quiet area, but increasing steadily in public interest ; crafts pavilions, which under Adrian Boyd were the first sight to greet the visitor, were gradually moved to a less prominent position ; there was room for a couple of dozen display gardens, plus a separate section, on the other side of the Long Water from the major part of the exhibition, for ten water gardens.

* Clearly it was no easy task to transport several dozen vehicles and a couple of hundred men across 800 miles of waterless desert without attracting the attention of the enemy.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

Pomham and Soconoco, a couple of minor sachems ( of something less than exalted character ) under Miantonomi, declared that they had never assented to the sale of land to Gorton and had never received anything for it.

We had a couple of schools in this country, the principal one being on the Marshall Field estate out in Lloyd's Neck.

Although it had seemed a good reason, to begin with: no couple could afford to have children.

If Blanche had been honest, she would have yelled, slammed at least a couple of doors, and thrown a few little, valueless things.

The daughter replied, `` Oh, I had dinner with -- well, you don't know him but he's awfully nice -- and we went to a couple of places -- I don't suppose you've heard of them -- and we finished up at a cute little night club -- I forget the name of it.

It ranged from two women members who had experienced premarital pregnancy to one couple twelve years married and seemingly unable to conceive.

Because his mind had been otherwise occupied for the past couple of hours, he did not think to look and see if Jerry Burton's car was still there.

If that picture gets around and I find out you had anything to do with it, I'm going to send a couple of my boys around to see you ''.

A couple of days later a balletomane told me he had telephoned Allied Arts for ticket information and was told `` the newspapers had made a mistake ''.

She could not count the times Herman had rapped on the door, just a couple of bangs that shook the whole damned closet and might, someday, break away the pipe connections from the wall.

It was an awkward hour, but I didn't have to punch any time clock, and it only meant that sometimes I had to stay a couple of hours later at the drawing board to finish up a job.

But, darn it all, why should we help a couple of spoiled snobs who had looked down their noses at us??

But it couldn't go on forever -- A couple of weeks, Chris had said.

Mr. Willis bought Zenith Plastic Products, a skeleton corporation of sorts which had undergone many vicissitudes and whose principal assets were a couple of electronics plants on Long Island engaged in working out government contracts, and installed Freddy in an executive position.

The couple married in 1827 and had eight children.

The score was written within a couple of weeks by Goodwin who was approached by George Pollock after Pollock had heard about him from Stanley Black.

The couple had two children ;

The couple were married for 50 years and had five children: Martha ( 1828 ), Charles ( 1830 ), Mary ( 1832 ), Robert ( 1834 ), and Andrew Jr. ( 1852 ).

While in the US, Bohr married Marietta Soffer ; the couple had three children, Vilhelm, Tomas and Margrethe.

Whatever energy Abner had went into evading the marital goals of Daisy Mae Scragg, his sexy, well-endowed ( but virtuous ) girlfriend — until Capp finally gave in to reader pressure and allowed the couple to marry.

When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.