That's an astonishing reversal of 52 years of progress in only half a dozen years,

I had a half-dozen cigarettes going in ashtrays all over the house and on the patio.

Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other.

It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

I think it's pretty astonishing that you said you didn't have the resources necessary to do your job and then to describe coordination in such a feeble way.

The first satellites go into orbit around Mars in 2008, as many as a half dozen of them,