The highway repair crew is paving a road. The first day it paved $8$ thousand feet. The second day it paved $4$ thousand feet more than $\dfrac{1}{6}$~of the total road. If they paved $\dfrac{5}{12}$~of the total length in the first two days, how long is the road? 
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