Sentence examples for dozen above from inspiring English sources

The factory could go on working till it blew itself up from too much speed, but I, he thought, already a couple of dozen above his daily stint, will be here after the factory's gone".

And out back, the former schoolyard is home to the Tenth Acre Farm, a dozen above-ground planters full of organic eggplants, tomatoes and other vegetables.

Of the estimated 30 creek systems that existed in the watershed before 19th-century settlement, fewer than a dozen remain above-ground or free-flowing.

A recent study there estimated a dozen new above-ground parking garages in Oakland, Berkeley and nearby suburbs would cost nearly $250 million to build about $36,000 per space.

The Islamists in Timbuktu have destroyed at least a half-dozen venerable above-ground tombs of holy men revered in the ancient city, proclaiming them contrary to Shariah, a legal code based on Islam.

My cousin, a television producer, lives a dozen floors above me.

Conant had paddled past my house, on the Hudson River a dozen miles above Manhattan, on Labor Day morning.

Passing through the tunnels I think of the fish and the keels of ships just a few dozen feet above.

Small fishing cabins and trailers have given way to candy-colored homes that sit on pilings more than a dozen feet above the ground.

Dugumenu was similar to Gawa in geology, but not nearly as uplifted – only a few dozen meters above sea level in the center.

We drove south on Highway 2, a shoulder-less two-lane road that was built on an embankment a dozen feet above the desert.