Tank and vehicle production was a constant problem for Germany ; indeed, late in the war many panzer " divisions " had no more than a few dozen tanks.

Two battalions of light tanks were positioned at Fort Stotsenburg in late November to protect Clark against seizure by Japanese airborne troops, while the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment ( AA ) provided limited antiaircraft artillery defense with 50-caliber machine guns and a dozen 3-inch guns.

At that time, the RKKA had only several dozen outdated Mk. V, Mk. A and Renault FT-17 tanks, captured during the Russian Civil War, together with various armoured cars and obsolescent domestic MS-1 ( T-18 ) light infantry tanks.

" For the next 20 hours, Zvika Force, as he came to be known on the radio net, fought running battles with Syrian tanks — sometimes alone, sometimes as part of a larger unit, changing tanks half a dozen times as they were knocked out.

Now exposed to Russian defensive positions, Yoshimaru's Type 97 was subjected to the fire of a dozen Soviet BT-7 tanks and anti-tank guns.

Pavlov had reportedly destroyed nearly a dozen tanks personally using this tactic.

An even rarer version was produced for use as a secondary gun in the firing ports of Vickers Alt B Type E 6-Ton tanks, but only a few dozen were built before production was canceled due to the outbreak of the Winter War.

Gibbons could count a dozen burning tanks from his view of the battlefield.

Several dozen Jordanian M48 tanks, captured intact during the 1967 Six Day War, were also commissioned into service, adding to Israel's 150 already in service at that time.

During the fighting, Schrijnen singlehandedly knocked out more than a dozen enemy tanks while wounded and cutoff from his unit.

By this stage, the division retained roughly a dozen tanks and about thirty halftracks.

With its flanks covered from both sides, the 2nd Mounted Rifles Regiment made a successful sortie towards the village of Kamieńsk, on September 4, where it surprised the German 4th Panzer Division, and destroyed several of its tanks and a dozen of its fuel tanks, killing approximately 100 enemy soldiers.

The country has not discovered sources of fossil fuels — apart from minor coal deposits — but its mountainous terrain and abundant rainfall have permitted the construction of a dozen hydroelectric power plants, making it self-sufficient in all energy needs, except oil for transportation.

Germany's political disunity — with three dozen states — and a pervasive conservatism made it difficult to build railways in the 1830s.

Only one country has been known to ever dismantle their nuclear arsenal completely — the apartheid government of South Africa apparently developed half a dozen crude fission weapons during the 1980s, but they were dismantled in the early 1990s.

" Although Edmund went out of his way to declare that the story of Father and Son was " scrupulously true ," Thwaite cites a dozen occasions on which either Edmund's " memory betray him — he admitted it was ' like a colander '"— or he " changed things deliberately to make a better story.

It is also well known to paleontologists, with over a dozen described fossil skeletons — the most of any dromaeosaurid.

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.

Author and professor Mona Lisa Saloy posits a different theory, stating in African American Oral Traditions in Louisiana that " The dozens has its origins in the slave trade of New Orleans where deformed slaves — generally slaves punished with dismemberment for disobedience — were grouped in lots of a ' cheap dozen ' for sale to slave owners.

Since single cycle ( gas turbine only ) power plants are less efficient than combined cycle plants, they are usually used as peaking power plants, which operate anywhere from several hours per day to a few dozen hours per year — depending on the electricity demand and the generating capacity of the region.

They are quite rare — only a few dozen in a galaxy as big as the Milky Way.

: "... crazy wooden galleries common to the backs of half a dozen houses, with holes from which to look upon the slime beneath ; windows, broken and patched, with poles thrust out, on which to dry the linen that is never there ; rooms so small, so filthy, so confined, that the air would seem to be too tainted even for the dirt and squalor which they shelter ; wooden chambers thrusting themselves out above the mud and threatening to fall into it — as some have done ; dirt-besmeared walls and decaying foundations, every repulsive lineament of poverty, every loathsome indication of filth, rot, and garbage: all these ornament the banks of Jacob's Island.

Resident Marlena Burks — who was instrumental in getting the issue placed on the ballot — said that more than a dozen children live on her block alone.

In 1918 there were four hotels in town — the Palace, the Cloyd, the Donoho, and the Central Hotel ; a decade later that number doubled and soon after, over a dozen hotels and at least that many boarding houses had been erected to take advantage of tourism.

After the publication of a dozen of his songs late the preceding year, Wolf once again desired to return to composing, and travelled to the vacation home of the Werners — family friends whom Wolf had known since childhood — in Perchtoldsdorf ( a short train ride from Vienna ), to escape and compose in solitude.

In time, the office lost some of its importance — from " second after the ruler " to just one of several dozen important officials.

Its portability makes it ideal for plein air painting, and painters today can buy compact watercolor kits — containing a dozen or more pan paints, collapsible brushes, water flask, brush rinsing cup and fold out mixing trays — that fit neatly into a coat pocket.

About two dozen bronze statues — each perhaps four feet tall — of characters and scenes from Space Battleship Yamato and Galaxy Express 999 were erected in the downtown area of Tsuruga in 1999.

Had More's writings been wholly limited to such exercises, they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or so other authors living in his time, whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works.

Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.

The Abernathys said it to each other a dozen times a day.

In Die Austernprinzessin ( The Oyster Princess ) a triple layer of horizontal rectangles with rounded ends enclose sets of dancing feet at the frenzied peak of a foxtrot, and in Die Puppe ( The Doll ) a dozen gossiping mouths are each enclosed in individual small circular vignettes arranged in a matrix.

Scholars have devised over a dozen methods to calculate Gini, each of which gives a different value.

The game worlds in all of the Might and Magic games are quite large, and a player can expect each game to provide several dozen hours of gameplay.

Each program sponsors about eight peer review meetings in each year, in which a ' host country ' lays a given policy or initiative open to examination by half a dozen other countries and relevant European-level NGOs.

* Double-stranded RNA viruses ( Group III ) contain from one to a dozen different RNA molecules, each of which codes for one or more viral proteins.

If each satellite had two dozen lasers, two dozen satellites on-station would significantly blunt any attack.

And in each of the past three years, at least a dozen graduates have gone into full-time service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, the Peace Corps and Teach for America.

Without revealing the proprietary information, he developed a program that would allow him to determine with usually less than a dozen plays on each machine which EPROM chip was installed.

* January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.

For example, at the beginning of that century, only 12 glovers made 15, 000 dozen gloves each year ; however, by 1787, 64 glovers made 160, 000 dozen gloves each year.

The upper secondary vocational education system in Mexico includes over a dozen subsystems ( administrative units within the Upper Secondary Education Undersecretariat of the Ministry of Public Education, responsible for vocational programmes ) which differ from each other to varying degrees in content, administration, and target group.

For each new dozen articles, that researcher will need to look in b < sub > m </ sub > times as many journals.

At the height of their popularity in 1959, there were more than two dozen " cowboy " programs on each week.

He lowers his arms behind his back and when he raises them again, he now has an additional dozen baby rabbits on them, six on each arm.

Half a dozen trains each day linking the city with the Spanish capital, highlighting the service Alvia ( At 10. 09 in the morning ), which, via Valladolid, uses the infrastructure of the AVE to arrive in 3 hours 43 minutes to Madrid.

Sometimes just one Brolga dances for its mate ; often they dance in pairs ; and sometimes a whole group of about a dozen dance together, lining up roughly opposite each other before starting.

In fact, the early design was to have a ring for each of a dozen satellites in place at the time of the Fair.