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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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dozens

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0 A dozen is 12. So dozens means at least 2 dozen (24) but probably a lot more. It's not an exact figure. It's just a way of expressing a large number where it is not large enough to start counting in hundreds. 0-
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