In the United States, several large dairy operations existed in some northeastern states and in the west, that involved as many as several hundred cows, but an individual milker could not be expected to milk more than a dozen cows a day.

Small farms need several people to milk and care for only a few dozen cows, though for many farms these employees have traditionally been the children of the farm family, giving rise to the term " family farm ".

Before large scale mechanization arrived in the 1950s, keeping a dozen milk cows for the sale of milk was profitable.

" Bill Bryson says, " those writers who scrupulously avoid ' hopefully ' in such constructions do not hesitate to use at least a dozen other words – ' apparently ,' ' presumably ,' ' happily ,' ' sadly ,' ' mercifully ,' ' thankfully ,' and so on – in precisely the same way.

It was regarded at the time as " among the half dozen best biographies of the century " and has been reissued several times since its first publication.

The caseload of an ASA is generally regarded as being high in volume, with an ASA having anywhere from a few dozen to several hundred active cases at any given time.

He was one of maybe two dozen " men who made the Council ", contributing, often in fluent Latin, to many of the Council's documents, e. g. The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation ( Dei Verbum ) which he regarded as their very underpinning, and subsequently was a strong proponent of the teachings of Vatican II.

A dozen species, including several that had been identified as belonging to Chaos, were to be regarded as synonynms of Amoeba proteus.

Although it is at best an uncritical and unphilosophical compilation, its value, as giving us an insight into the private lives of the Greek sages, led Montaigne to exclaim that he wished that instead of one Laërtius there had been a dozen.

The name Emmanuel ( from the Hebrew words: א ֵ ל ’ El, i. e. ' God ' and ע ִ מ ָּ נו ּ i. e. ʻImmānū, ' with us ') is related to Isaiah 7: 14 and is one of almost a dozen cases in his Gospel where while discussing Jesus as the fulfillment of prophecies, Matthew points back to one of the prophets.

A medieval prison tower was built on the site which was described by Thomas Pennant in 1772 as " a lofty slender rock, that juts into the sea: on one side is a little tower, at a vast height above us, accessible by a narrow and horrible path: it seems so small as scarce to be able to contain half a dozen people.

So long as the day waxed and it was still morning, we held our own against them, though they were more in number than we ; but as the sun went down, towards the time when men loose their oxen, the Cicons got the better of us, and we lost half a dozen men from every ship we had ; so we got away with those that were left.

We give Russia the capability of delivering an air attack against us, yet at any given moment now, there may be a dozen official unidentified sightings plus many unofficial.

Although it is at best an uncritical and unphilosophical compilation, its value, as giving us an insight into the private lives of the Greek sages, led Montaigne to write that he wished that instead of one Laërtius there had been a dozen.

There were about a dozen to fifteen of these lights ... they were absolutely circular ... it gave all of us ... an extremely eerie feeling.

[...] Mr. Holbrooke can do quite easily and unconsciously what Strauss has only done half a dozen times in his career-he can write a big, heartfelt melody that searches us to the very bone ; and the musicians who have this gift as their birthright have a charmed life among a thousand shipwrecks.

Young men in school could look forward to playing ball for money in a dozen different places, even if they failed to make the major leagues.

However, C language programming is much easier to obtain skilled people in, so most if not all new development is done in C. Since z / TPF allows assembler programs to be repackaged into 1 logical file, critical legacy applications can be maintained and actually improve efficiency-the cost of entering one of these programs will now come at the initial enter when the entire program is fetched into core and logical flow through the program is accomplished via simple branch instructions, instead of a dozen or so IBM instructions previously needed to perform what is known as ' core resident enter / back '.

Originally one thought that if there were a half dozen large computers in this country, hidden away in research laboratories, this would take care of all requirements we had throughout the country.

The most famous rotten borough was Old Sarum, which had 13 burgage plots that could be used to " manufacture " electors if necessary — usually around half a dozen was thought sufficient.

Oswiu vowed to give his daughter Ælfflæd to the church, and to found a dozen monasteries if he was granted the victory, and assisted by Ealhfrith he engaged Penda with a small army in the Battle of the Winwæd, which took place in the region of Loidis, which is to say Leeds.

Palenville was one of the Catskill's vacation meccas hosting nearly two dozen small and medium sized boarding houses and as many if not more hotels at that turn of the centuries.

It was claimed that a roller copier could make a half dozen copies of a typewritten letter if the letter was run through the copier several times.

It could make a dozen copies if the letter was written with a pen and good copying ink.

Even if some money managers are consistently observed to beat the market, no refutation even of strong-form efficiency follows: with hundreds of thousands of fund managers worldwide, even a normal distribution of returns ( as efficiency predicts ) should be expected to produce a few dozen " star " performers.

Film historian John DiLeo has written that Magnani's acting in the film " displays why she is inarguably one of the half dozen greatest screen actresses of all time ", and added :" Whenever Magnani laughs or cries ( which is often ), it's as if you've never seen anyone laugh or cry before: has laughter ever been so burstingly joyful or tears so shatteringly sad?

September 20, Cotton Mather wrote to Stephen Sewall, the clerk of the court: " That I may be the more capable to assist in lifting up a standard against the infernal enemy ..." requesting "... a narrative of the evidence given in at the trials of half a dozen, or if you please, a dozen, of the principal witches that have been condemned.

Following a long business day at the offsite, the dozen employees and advisers who were present agreed that they would stay up that night and see if they could agree unanimously on a new name for the company.

Lent ’ s dozen stories get as close to three-dimensional writing as is possible .” Paul Denham, notes the struggle a critic faces with the book and labels but also sees that struggle as an impediment “ from its real emotional power of a story ( or series of stories, if you prefer ) about the joy and pain of being a family .” Two reviews in The Globe and Mail concentrate on structure and theme.

It cannot be otherwise so long as I live, even if she were to be replaced by two dozen children.

He offers Sarah a deal: He will bring the mission " one dozen genuine sinners " if she will accompany him to Havana the next night.

For each Yozi, there are at least a dozen Third Circle demons including the Fetich, each third circle demon rivals the most powerful gods and elementals in power and embodies and defines an aspect of the Yozi, which will change if the demon is permanently slain, with more dramatic changes including a new name and identity resulting from the death of a Fetich.

When St. Louis lawyer Sidney Redmond, one of the three dozen African Americans then admitted to the Missouri bar, informed Charles Hamilton Houston, who was leading the NAACP's legal effort against the segregationist Jim Crow laws, that Gaines was willing to be a plaintiff, Houston at first asked him if he could find someone else.

Only several dozen words ( perhaps 200, if we add Gaulish etymology ) survive in modern French, for example chêne, ‘ oak tree ’ and charrue ‘ plough '; Delamarre ( 2003, pp. 389 – 90 ) lists 167.

For example, if one side can produce the testimony of " a dozen bishops ", and the other side only has the testimony of a known liar, then summary judgment is not appropriate.

These ranged from simple models with plain cases and only four or five stops ( if any at all ), up to large instruments with ornate cases, up to a dozen stops and other mechanisms such as couplers.

When dealing with items in dozens, multiplication and division are straightforward ; for example, if a dozen eggs cost four shillings, then each egg was four pence.

There had been no widespread aggression, but if their displeasure spread and escalated, Lt. Moore, the commanding officer at the time, and his dozen or so soldiers, could not be expected to be able to protect the settlement from a mob of such size.

I knew that if I killed him no other woman could ever touch him again, so I killed him ....." In attempting to explain what distinguished Abe's case from over a dozen other similar cases in Japan, William Johnston suggests that it is this answer which captured the imagination of the nation.

Being a versatile denominator in fractions may explain why we have 12 inches in an imperial foot, 12 ounces in a troy pound, 12 old British pence in a shilling, 24 ( 12 × 2 ) hours in a day, and many other items counted by the dozen, gross ( 144, square of 12 ) or great gross ( 1728, cube of 12 ).

However, I noticed one thing: If we took over this area we would evict several dozen families and we would also take a large amount of farm acreage out of production.

Initially we found half a dozen TV shows that we knew to be missing.

If we attempted to develop and procure a dozen or more distinct different nuclear delivery systems … we doubtless would end up squandering our resources and not doing a good job on any of them.

" During a recent segment concerning a Tony Robbins ’ Fire walk experience in San Jose, California, we reported more than two dozen participants were hospitalized with burns.

There are only a dozen theaters in America where we can do this.

Sex-positive, a term that's coming into cultural awareness, isn't a dippy love-child celebration of orgone – it's a simple yet radical affirmation that we each grow our own passions on a different medium, that instead of having two or three or even half a dozen sexual orientations, we should be thinking in terms of millions.

:" Free competition is the basic feature of capitalism, and of commodity production generally ; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition, but we have seen the latter being transformed into monopoly before our eyes, creating large-scale industry and forcing out small industry, replacing large-scale by still larger-scale industry, and carrying concentration of production and capital to the point where out of it has grown and is growing monopoly: cartels, syndicates and trusts, and merging with them, the capital of a dozen or so banks, which manipulate thousands of millions.

These items were bought in bulk, hence the term grocer from the French " grossier " meaning wholesaler, this term derived from Medieval Latin " grossarius " from which we also derive the word gross ( meaning a quantity of twelve dozen, or 144 ).

The movie has ideas enough for half a dozen films, but Jonze and his cast handle them so surely that we never feel hard-pressed ; we're enchanted by one development after the next " and he also felt that " Either Being John Malkovich gets nominated for best picture, or the members of the Academy need portals into their brains.

Commonly assumed to be a gift of the Fourth Doctor, this fact was confirmed in the 2006 episode " School Reunion " when the Tenth Doctor responded to Sarah Jane's comments on his apparent regeneration with the line " half a dozen times since we last met ", indicating that this was the first time the two had met since the Doctor was in his Fourth incarnation.

In the opening ceremonies, a dozen children in various traditional costumes waved Afghan flags and sang songs of peace, including " We are doves, waiting for peace, we are tired of fighting.

Tamagno toured sedulously during the final dozen years of the 19th century, accepting lucrative invitations to perform Otello and other strenuous operatic roles in countries as diverse as England, France, Portugal, Spain ( again ), Germany, Austria, Russia, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico and, as we have noted, Argentina.

A dozen words for which we have translations and 50 or 60 place names form the entire corpus of the language.

James " Grizzly " Adams ' also reports trapping beaver in the lower Carson River around 1860, " In the evening we caught a fine lot of salmon-trout ( Cutthroat trout ), using grasshoppers for bait, and in the night killed half a dozen beavers, which were very tame.

About half a dozen of them are partial Einstein rings with diameters up to an arcsecond, although as either the mass distribution of the lenses is not perfectly axially symmetrical, or the source, lens and observer are not perfectly aligned, we have yet to see a perfect Einstein ring.