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Consider: There were at least a half-dozen people known to have visited the park that afternoon.
"Yesterday, this columnist ate a half-dozen kippers for breakfast, and he loved them all."
There are over a half-dozen museums concentrated around El Prado (the Promenade), including the San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Man, the Natural History Museum, the Aerospace Historical Center, the Automotive Museum, and the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center.
Likewise, a half-dozen recent studies prove beyond a reasonable doubt what every veteran policeman knows: Most prisoners are not petty, nonviolent thieves or mere first-time, low-level drug offenders.
Nick Humez is the coauthor, with his brother Alex, of a half-dozen books on language and word origins including Latin for People/Latina pro Populo (Little, Brown, Boston: 1976).