Canet is a sort of seaside overflow of Perpignan, a dozen kilometres away on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Rivesaltes, practically a suburb of Perpignan, a dozen kilometres north, is approached by as awful a road as one will find in France.
A dozen kilometres to the south of Perpignan is Elne, an ancient cathedral town.
While still half a dozen kilometres away, he sees a sign reading "Cannes Cricket Club," and all is over!
From St. Chamas to Berre is scarce a dozen kilometres, but, to the traveller from the north, the journey will be full of marvels and surprises.
The road from Grimaud, which is but a dozen kilometres or so, rises constantly through rocky escarpments like a route in Corsica, which indeed the whole region of Les Maures resembles.
The Rade de Bormes, though it really has nothing to do with Bormes, a half a dozen kilometres distant, is another of those delightful bays which are scattered all along the Mediterranean shore.
Three carriages with cyclers and their friends accompany us a dozen kilometres out to a wayside mehana (the Oriental name hereabouts for hotels, wayside inns, etc.
Still heading south one comes in a dozen kilometres to a chateau of the fourteenth century, and the restorations of Henri IV at Thoisy-la-Berchere.
At Bourget du Lac, a dozen kilometres out, are the ruins of the Chateau de Bourget, within sight of the ancient Lacus Castilion, and a near neighbour of the celebrated Abbey of Hautecombe.
The grand route from Paris to Dijon passes it by a dozen kilometres to the left, and the railway likewise.
The road to Les Andelys runs from St. Pierre, by the left bank of the Seine, for nearly a dozen kilometres.
From Etretat to Fécamp, which is a veritable metropolis compared to the former, is but a dozen kilometres as the crow flies, though the windings of the road as it nears Fécamp add six or eight more.
From Batna to Lambessa, on the road to Timgad, is a dozen kilometres.
An Arab trader in--well, everything--has just sold half a ton of coal to a farmer living a dozen kilometres out in the country.
A dozen kilometres or more out into the plateau lands to the northwest is Zana, the ancient city of Diana.
The road down the coast from Spezia is marked on the maps as perfectly flat, but within a dozen kilometres, before Arcola is reached, is as stiff a couple of hair-pin turns as one will remember ever having come across suddenly in his travels.
Pegli is but a continuation of Voltri, Genoa La Superba is still a dozen kilometres away.
At the Capo delle Melle, a dozen kilometres beyond, it all changes and the land blossoms again, though truth to tell both the wine and olive products have the reputation of falling off in quality as one goes further east.
But the good road in Italy suddenly descends into a bad road for a dozen kilometres and as abruptly becomes a good road again, and this without apparent reason.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dozen kilometres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
