The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.
You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done or to start a business, and people are quite frustrated about this.
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.
I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting.
As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
