nineteen/ten to the dozen

dozen | American Dictionary

dozen
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdʌz·ən/
a group or collection of twelve:
a dozen eggs
I brought home a half dozen/half a dozen (= six) eggs.

dozen | Business English

dozen
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈdʌzən/us(abbreviationdoz.)
a group of twelve things:
Most people know only a few big-name insurers but there are about two dozen.
 dozens
[ plural ]
a large but not exact number:
She coordinates the work of dozens of employees.

dozen

adjective
The table shows average basic salaries in the top dozen countries.

Examples of dozen

dozen
Accordingly, in our reports over the last several years, we have made dozens of specific recommendations to individual agencies.
Shortly after such dances commence, dozens of newly recruited foragers arrive at the food source being advertised.
The narrator's dark sentiments register most memorably in dozens of brief, sharply ironic observations on human greed, cruelty, self-delusion, and suffering.
At the end of the 1960s their numbers had already reached several dozens.
They grumbled about supervisors, poor wages, long hours, bad work rules and dozens of other issues.
Maximilian, however, had little more success than the dozens of caudillos before him.
Furthermore, dozens of empirical studies find the predicted density effects.
Instead, the literally dozens of studies on regime type have examined the entire universe of countries in the world for which there is data.
The first author of this paper has based literally dozens of other implementations on it, unifying datatypes representing many different kinds of terms.
In it are found dozens of increasingly picaresque and abbreviated sections depicting folk dances, ballroom dances, waltzes, marches, polkas - you name it.
He has published dozens of articles in scholarly journals, written and edited numerous books, and delivered hundreds of presentations at conferences around the world.
He suggests that dozens more were sentenced to shorter terms or fined.
Echoes of these arguments can be found in dozens of communities, though they usually went unrecorded.
Through these positions, he befriended dozens of world leaders.
His correspondence was voluminous, and for all those who offered him material, there were dozens more to whom he provided much-sought answers.
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