Collocations for "twelve"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "twelve" in context.
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twelve
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- twelve [patients, victims, students]
- twelve [years, months, minutes]
- twelve [minutes] [later, after, ago, before]
- took twelve [months] to [build, finish, complete]
- took me twelve [minutes] (to)
- costs twelve [dollars, euros, pounds]
- [wasted, spent, worth] twelve thousand dollars
- weighs twelve [kilos, grams, ounces, tons]
- measures twelve [miles, feet, meters]
- is twelve miles [long, deep, out]
- is twelve kilometers from [home, the airport, the city center]
- [there are, is divided into] twelve [pieces, parts, chapters]
- [just, only] twelve (more, hours, pieces) left
- is twelve years [old, of age]
- turned twelve (years old) (today)
- a twelve -year-old [child, movie]
- has twelve [cousins, grandchildren]
- twelve per cent of the [members, population, patients]
- the album has twelve [tracks, songs]
- at twelve o'clock (noon)
- twelve [patients, victims, students]
- took me twelve [minutes] (to)
- costs twelve [dollars, euros, pounds]
- [wasted, spent, worth] twelve thousand dollars
- has [put on, increased by, lost] twelve pounds
- measures twelve [miles, feet, meters]
- is twelve miles [long, deep, out]
- is twelve years [old, of age]
- twelve per cent of the [members, population, patients]
- were twelve (of them) in [total, all]
- the number twelve
- [section, part, page] twelve
- [turn to, on] page twelve
- there are twelve in total
- there [are, were] twelve of [us, them]
- twelve plus [one] [equals, is, makes] [thirteen]
- twelve [minus, take away] [two] [equals] [ten]
- twelve [times, multiplied by] [two] [equals] [twenty-four]
- [multiply, divide] it by twelve
- [need, require] another twelve
- no [more, fewer] than twelve
- [children, boys, girls] of twelve
- the clock struck twelve
- [at, on] the stroke of twelve
- [half, twenty, ten] past twelve
- it [starts, finishes] at twelve
- we [met, left, set off] at twelve
- the [movie, game, lesson] starts at twelve
- got home just [before, after] twelve
- (at) twelve (o'clock) [noon, midnight]
- twelve [AM, PM, o'clock]
- there are twelve [missing, hurt, injured]
- twelve new members (have joined)
- on (more than) twelve separate occasions
- do twelve more [sit-ups, push-ups]
- [about, approximately, around, near] twelve
- twelve of us are going to [go, try, see]
- there are twelve to a dozen
- is in the [top, bottom] twelve
'twelve' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):