dozen in English:

It's a surprise.

Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.

If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools.

Your words of encouragement meant a lot to me.

Your dream of becoming a baseball player will come true if you try hard.

Once you skip a lesson, it's hard to catch up with your classmates.

The policeman talked to the children in as friendly a manner as he could.

Hypothetically a person can live a perfect life without sinning.

He is a primary school teacher, so he is used to dealing with children.

In addition to taking the regular tests, we have to hand in a long essay.

Will it be necessary for us to buy a book for this class?

Who can read the heroic deeds of brave men without a feeling of respect and admiration?

twelve boxes

They usually have breakfast at half past seven o'clock and eat their lunch at twelve.

I've heard that it's impossible to sound like a native speaker unless one starts speaking the language before the age of twelve.

She began writing a report at eight, finishing it at twelve.

The handyman was supposed to arrive at twelve noon, but got stuck in a traffic jam for a few hours.

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December are the twelve months of the year.

Why are you telling me about hippos all of the sudden? I don't see the connection between that and your twelve red goldfishes.

The son of Heaven, when sacrificing, wore the cap decorated with twelve pendants of jade beads hanging down before and behind, and the robe embroidered with dragons.

If it's not from Scotland and it hasn't been aged at least twelve years, then it isn't whisky.

The twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac come from eleven kinds of animals originating in nature, namely the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, horse, snake, monkey, rooster, dog and pig, as well as the legendary form of the dragon, and are used as a calendar.

Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.

A lot of people ask why the cat does not appear among the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac.

While at the fabric store, a small boy discovered large rolls of uncut fabric, which he unrolled and hid under, cackling like twelve squirrels.

The twelve stars on the flag of the European Union do not symbolize the twelve founding members of the union. They symbolize the Twelve Apostles.