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- noun Plural form of
ten . - noun poker slang A pair of
tens . - noun The second
decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. Theteens , theoneties . Short for the nineteen-tens, twenty-tens, etc.
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Examples
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By the time the product is offered to the public, it has been studied for at least 10 to 15 years (usually longer) in tens of thousands of study participants, by thousands of scientists, statisticians, healthcare providers and other personnel, and has cost about $800 million dollars to produce.
Vaccine Science 2010
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It also licenses tweets to Google's and Microsoft Corp. 's search engines, which brings in tens of millions of dollars per year, people familiar with the matter have said.
Twitter Names New CEO Amir Efrati 2010
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Indeed … indeed … and no doubt, a proper lack of home furnishings results in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths a year, and is one of the leading causes of bankruptcy, to boot!
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And while the cap is aimed at top executives, what about the midlevel execs who rake in tens of millions in risky investment schemes?
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To evaluate his success, consider the fact that Rackspace will be using OpenStack in tens of thousands of servers this fall - and that Openstack uses the cloud computing technology developed at NASA.
Alexander Howard: Open Government Goes to the Theater at Fedtalks Alexander Howard 2010
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Indeed … indeed … and no doubt, a proper lack of home furnishings results in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths a year, and is one of the leading causes of bankruptcy, to boot!
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In China, for instance, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration oversees all aspects of the industry, including tobacco production and distribution, and brings in tens of millions of dollars in revenue a year.
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For the first time, in tens of years, Egyptians can see an American president who is not eager to establish a relationship with the Egyptian regime regardless of its black record of practices against democracy and human rights.
Global Voices in English » Egypt: Is Obama not Welcome? 2009
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In China, for instance, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration oversees all aspects of the industry, including tobacco production and distribution, and brings in tens of millions of dollars in revenue a year.
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In the decades to come, North America and Europe will have to take in tens of millions of immigrants anyway to slow the aging of their populations.
"Ending the West's Proxy War Against Israel" Not a sheep 2009
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