1.   A springlike mechanism on the abdomen allow it to leap dozens of times its own length.

2.   A springlike mechanism on the abdomen allows it to leap dozens of times its own length.

3.   His wife reminded him more than a half dozen times one afternoon to mail a birthday card to their grandson.

4.   If that ratio were representative of the whole system, it would mean that the rule is broken dozens of times systemwide each day.

5.   The amount is dozens of times the annual salary of an official in his position.

6.   Eight dense pages without advertising follow, giving wide coverage to the war with photographs and graphics and writing from the dozen Times correspondents in Afghanistan.