English example sentences with "twelve"

Learn how to use twelve in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

I spent twelve hours on the train.

Why are you telling me about hippos all of the sudden? I don't see the connection between that and your twelve red goldfishes.

I have lived in Kamakura for twelve years.

The students' lunch period is from twelve to one.

There go the twelve bars blues.

Twelve are present at the meeting.

The EC's Twelve are working out a compromise on farm-price.

The committee consists of twelve members.

A birthday cake with twelve candles on top.

Though she was only twelve years old, Susan knew how to make a living.

Yes. He can run 100 meters within twelve seconds.

Twelve people were injured in the accident.

The job pays well, but on the other hand I have to work twelve hours a day.

The brothers were born twelve years apart.

Then twelve o'clock came.

This room is twelve feet by twenty-four feet.

This stable contains twelve stalls.

Last summer, I finally left the firm that I had joined twelve years before.

There were twelve of us in all at our class reunion.

I slept twelve hours yesterday.

In the justice system of the United States, there are twelve people on a jury.

A year has twelve months.

Twelve musicians constitute the society.

I could swim across the river when I was twelve.

Twelve years is old for a dog.

His voice broke when he was twelve.

Twelve is an even number.

He can run 100 meters within twelve seconds.

"How old is she?" "She is twelve years old."

I went to bed at twelve last night.

Our plane took off at exactly twelve o'clock.

We have to book in before twelve o'clock.

I bought it for about twelve dollars.

We have an hour's recess for lunch from twelve to one.

My kid brother is twelve.

He has no less than twelve children.

He is twelve years old. He is tall for his age.

He began to learn English when he was twelve years old, that is to say, when he entered junior high school.

He got the twelve o'clock train.

He came to Tokyo five years ago, that is to say, when he was twelve years old.

He's only twelve, but he plays chess with the best of them.

They eat dinner at twelve o'clock.

They have twelve children.

They usually have breakfast at half past seven o'clock and eat their lunch at twelve.

She has no less than twelve children.

She began writing a report at eight, finishing it at twelve.

She has just turned twelve.

Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.

There are twelve months in a year.

There are twelve pairs of cranial nerves.

I was in the train for twelve hours.

I'll see you today, at around twelve.

In one year there are twelve months.

The blouse costs twelve libras.

One year has twelve months.

Twelve years old is old for a dog.

The twelve stars on the flag of the European Union do not symbolize the twelve founding members of the union. They symbolize the Twelve Apostles.

The twelve stars on the flag of the European Union do not symbolize the twelve founding members of the union. They symbolize the Twelve Apostles.

The twelve stars on the flag of the European Union do not symbolize the twelve founding members of the union. They symbolize the Twelve Apostles.

It was already twelve when he reached home.

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December are the twelve months of the year.

A ruler can measure something up to twelve inches in length.

The first airplane flew in 1903 for twelve seconds.

The handyman was supposed to arrive at twelve noon, but got stuck in a traffic jam for a few hours.

The twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac come from eleven kinds of animals originating in nature, namely the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, horse, snake, monkey, rooster, dog and pig, as well as the legendary form of the dragon, and are used as a calendar.

A lot of people ask why the cat does not appear among the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac.

If it's not from Scotland and it hasn't been aged at least twelve years, then it isn't whisky.

I was on the train for twelve hours.

The custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve is related to an ancient Chinese method of measuring time; in ancient China, each day was divided into twelve sections: the beginning of each day was called 'first time', which corresponds to the period from 11pm to 1am.

Twelve boxers chase Victor across the big Sylter dike.

He won re-election twelve times.

He served in the House for twelve years.

Four soldiers and twelve civilians were killed.

While at the fabric store, a small boy discovered large rolls of uncut fabric, which he unrolled and hid under, cackling like twelve squirrels.

And finally, twelve points to Estonia!

Ania and Piotr are twelve.

I've heard that it's impossible to sound like a native speaker unless one starts speaking the language before the age of twelve.

My twelve year old boy doesn't like to play baseball.

The son of Heaven, when sacrificing, wore the cap decorated with twelve pendants of jade beads hanging down before and behind, and the robe embroidered with dragons.

Tom began trombone lessons when he was twelve years old.

Tom was exactly twelve minutes late.

Tom hasn't seen Mary more than five or six time in the past twelve years.

Tom, as his usual, lagged at the beginning of the sentence, when Mary, already twelve words ahead of him, stood now in its middle.

Tom certainly looks older than twelve.

Tom became interested in snowboarding when he was about twelve.

There are three primary colours and nine secondary colours for a total of twelve colours.

Mary started plucking her eyebrows when she was twelve years old.

She has no more than twelve puppies.

I programed my first computer game when I was twelve years old.

The twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac come from eleven types of animals we find in nature: the rat, the ox, the tiger, the hare, the snake, the horse, the ram, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, the pig, and the mythological dragon; they're used as a calendar.

Three times four is twelve.

Twelve divided by three is four.

Tom started taking boxing lessons when he turned twelve.

We will be conducting an inspection on your stomach tomorrow morning at nine, so please do not ingest anything for twelve hours beforehand.

Twelve people have walked on the moon.

The source also said that the Duchess of Cambridge feels "fulfilled" by her achievements over the last twelve months.

The farmers had brought five oxen and nine cows and twelve little sheep to the village; they wanted to sell them.

I was born with twelve fingers.

Don't worry, I'll be back before twelve.

Wake up, sleepyhead! You've been asleep for twelve hours!

Twelve to fifteen years ago, there lived in the town, in a private home on the main street, a clerk, Gromov — a trustworthy and wealthy man.

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