What is "tens"

Usage examples of "tens".

The flow from tens of millions of toilets coursed through settling and aerating paddies the size of large farms.

I may as well say at once that these hollowed-out caves were nothing more nor less than vast catacombs, in which for tens of ages the mortal remains of the great extinct race whose monuments surrounded us had been first preserved, with an art and a completeness that has never since been equalled, and then hidden away for all time.

I can only suppose that these cuttings and the vast caves that had been hollowed out of the rocks they pierced were the State undertakings of the people of Kor, who lived here in the dim lost ages of the world, and, as in the case of the Egyptian monuments, were executed by the forced labour of tens of thousands of captives, carried on through an indefinite number of centuries.

They were certainly penetrating the atmosphere a long way, tens of kilometres at least.

Colourful phantom shapes slithered below its translucent surface, tens of thousands of personalities, at once separate and in concord: the multiplicity.

And the dead, ensconced in their beautiful new mansions and fanciful castles, died again in their tens of thousands beneath the usurping totem of the radiant mushroom cloud.

I dreamed that they all stood up and marched past me in thousands and tens of thousands--in squadrons, companies, and armies--with the sunlight shining through their hollow ribs.

Pillars of Hercules, as they had ever since that day, tens of thousands of years ago, when the Atlantic Ocean had broken through the neck of land connecting Europe and Africa, pouring into the grassy basin that was to become the Mediterranean.

Prime attack resulted in several tens of millions of humans being killed on the Lost23.

Several ocher columns jutted tens of meters up out of the foliage, like ancient giant trees that had died and petrified.

The lifeboats can hold several tens of thousands of people in suspension, along with all the manufacturing cybernetics necessary to establish an advanced technological human society from scratch on a new world.

Past the cliffs, the ground curved down sharply, though visibility was still only a few tens of meters.

There were tens of thousands of discarded bodies lying buried in the rubble or trapped in smashed vehicles.

It brought in tens of thousands of additional soldier motiles from its homeworld, all of which had to be fed and supported, stretching its resources on the new twenty-three worlds.