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twelve

(ordinal twelfth) Twelve is the number that is after eleven and before thirteen. In numerals, it is 12. Twelve eggs make a big omelette.

twelve

The number 12. and ten makes twelve. A set of twelve things or persons. The twelve are never alone. To be twelve years old. This girl is twelve.

twelve

(= 12) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

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Simple sentences

They have twelve children.
Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December are the twelve months of the year.
The twelve signs of the Zodiac are: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.
Tom drinks only twelve-degree beer.
My nephew is twelve.
I have had this computer for twelve years.
My sister has a twelve-year-old son.
I spent twelve hours on the train.
I was in the train for twelve hours.
I was on the train for twelve hours.
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 committee consists of twelve members.
A birthday cake with twelve candles on top.
Yes. He can run 100 meters within twelve seconds.
Twelve people were injured in the accident.
This stable contains twelve stalls.
Last summer, I finally left the firm that I had joined twelve years before.
I slept twelve hours yesterday.
In the justice system of the United States, there are twelve people on a jury.
I have lived in Kamakura for twelve years.
The job pays well, but on the other hand I have to work twelve hours a day.
The brothers were born twelve years apart.
This room is twelve feet by twenty-four feet.
A year has twelve months.
I could swim across the river when I was twelve.
His voice broke when he was twelve.
Twelve is an even number.

Movie subtitles

Of course you woke up! You drank twelve cups of coffee!
Twelve years have passed.
Although it seems somewhat a relapse into the style of his earlier Keystones it was the most popular film in the whole series of twelve.
But I accept twelve thousand marks.that will prevent it falling into someone else's hands.
I bear witness by this means having sold my lot called the Devil's Field to Peter Rog for the sum of twelve thousand marks.
I have sold Devil's Field for twelve thousand marks to Peter!
Twelve kingdoms subdued the powerful. Twelve kings became his vassals.
Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, is outside the castle door with twelve of his knights, and asks for an audience with King Gunther.
Twelve kings have I for vassals.
Twelve twice.
Ten or twelve years.
Twelve miles out of port he can marry you.
Twelve men go with you.
Twelve pounds of sugar. Three cans malt.
Twelve cakes of yeast. Pfft!
Twelve pfenniger.
Not twelve.
That's twelve.
When I was six, and he was twelve.
For twelve years. The Professor was a collector, wasn't he?
Listen, when you've been here for twelve years, you have to know your boss. That's ridiculous.
That's the end of my twelve.
We've got twelve rooms so it's not easy.
One day, one wall. The next, twelve tiles.
I meet you at the back of the store at twelve.
I rather like it. I want you to post that letter at the box at Portland Square just a few minutes before twelve.
This is a strange report. on hypnotism, sorcery, and a trunk with twelve sharp swords.
Twelve once. Twelve twice.
The history of these figures becomes more interesting, perhaps. when I tell you that the originals were destroyed. twelve years ago, in London, in a fire. and were reproduced only after years of arduous toil.
You must! It's nearly twelve!
We'll talk about the Wilkes' barbecue at Twelve Oaks.
How are they at Twelve Oaks?
You love Twelve Oaks as I do.
Did you meet Captain Butler at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett?
Let's talk Twelve Oaks and Tara and times before there was a war.
We're nearly at Twelve Oaks.
If the war hadn't come, I'd have spent my life happily buried at Twelve Oaks.

News and current affairs

Twelve years later, Poland's Prime Minister didn't need a belated call from his military to know that war was underway in Iraq.
But his two aggressive adventures - the more recent over twelve years ago - ended in humiliating failure.
Lately, Ms. He Qinglian, a well-known author, journalist, and critic of China's reforms has been watched daily by as many as twelve agents.
The interest rates on the euro-denominated sovereign debt of the twelve euro-zone governments are all very similar.
Greece has just decided to support the opening of negotiations for Turkey's entry into the EU in the next twelve years.
There is maybe less of a French presence in the world today than there was twelve years ago when Jacques Chirac came to power, especially since the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty in 2005.
As the European Union prepares to welcome up to twelve new members, debate is heating up among the leading candidate countries about whether or not speedy adoption of the euro will promote or impede rapid catch-up growth.
The Sunnis have four imams and the Shias have twelve; their teachings all differ.
Twelve years ago, during and after reunification, the question was whether the German colossus would be tempted to establish first an economic and then a political hegemony over the continent.
It's hateful, needless, and futile: as Bush said himself, the US will never, could never, and should never deport twelve million people, illegal or not.
Now, Iraq is demanding that American combat troops leave within twelve months, with all troops out in 2011.
No question: the past ten or twelve years in Latin America represented a turning point for democracy in the region.
As a result, OPEC's share of world oil exports dropped sharply in the twelve years following the embargo of 1973-1974.
The twelve members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) concluded an Agreement on a Free Trade Zone in 1994, but it does not work.
The ICC has opened four active investigations, issued public charges against twelve people, and to date secured custody of four.
Twelve years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the country was saddened, but it was also better informed.
In order to kill twelve Americans in an attack on the US Embassy in August 1998, Middle Eastern terrorists killed some two hundred Kenyans in Nairobi.
In 2005, when I was Prime Minister of Denmark, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten provoked international controversy by publishing twelve sketches of the Prophet Muhammad.
The Union has expanded from only twelve members then to 27 today, and has brought stability and new prosperity to approximately 100 million people in the eastern and central parts of the Continent.
In some striking examples, the agreement between prediction and measurement has stretched out to twelve decimal places, making the Standard Model the most accurate scientific theory in human history.
Indeed, in the twelve months following the unconditional surrender of Hitler's Nazi regime in May 1945, I lived under serial Russian, American, and British occupation.

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