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  • noun Plural form of tenor.

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Examples

  • Björling was one of the few non-Latin tenors to rival the Italian dominance of the opera world at that time.

    Ipod Therefore I am Newmania 2007

  • Jan 18 - PBOC allows one-year bill yields to rise more than expected, signaling it aims to shift fund drains to longer-term tenors to rein in lending and fight inflation.

    Moneycontrol Top Headlines Moneycontrol.com editor@moneycontrol.com 2010

  • And yet as funny as Ferrell is, whether delivering an inscrutable retort about lion-vs. -tuna combat or joining an inexplicable chorus of maudlin Irish tenors, the actor who kept stealing my attention was his partner, Mark Wahlberg.

    Nashville Scene 2010

  • SHANGHAI, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China's central bank signalled in its open market operation on Tuesday that its quantitative tightening was still intact but it aims to shift fund drains to longer-term tenors to rein in lending and fight inflation.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • Jan 18 - PBOC allows one-year bill yields to rise more than expected, signaling it aims to shift fund drains to longer-term tenors to rein in lending and fight inflation.

    Moneycontrol Top Headlines 2010

  • 'Here are the sopranos singing in G, "May the stars"; tenors, "May the stars"; tenors and sopranos, "Much pleasure send you"; basses an octave lower, "May the stars -- may stars."

    A Mummer's Wife 1892

  • 2 The guy outlaws music and then names the money "tenors"?

    HH Com 557 Miss Snark 2006

  • For every Pavarotti, there are hundreds of tenors with good, if not great, professional voices whom no one will ever hear except in small opera houses or singing restaurants — if even there.

    A Golden Age for the Creative Arts? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

  • In a country of long-term savers, SBI is offering interest rates that are above market rates for its existing debt, and -- critically for individuals -- more than it pays on deposits of similar tenors.

    India's Bond Issuers Hit the High Street Harsh Joshi 2010

  • The company would issue bonds in tenors ranging between four and 15 years, with a coupon rate of 9.50 per cent, said bond dealers.

    Deals India: Morning News Roundup Deals India Staff 2011

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