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  • noun Plural form of tempo.

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Examples

  • Back in 1961 an album titled "Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos" promised "Yiddish favorites in Latin tempos."

    Datebook | Aug. 21-27 2009

  • Though the tempos are a lot faster than I'm used to.

    Cover Version Cage Match Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • The conductor, an old Italian named Oleg Caetani sounds like a shoe designer, paced the music at truly slow, lugubrious tempos, which is the quickest way to kill a Bel Canto opera imaginable.

    Archive 2005-10-01 sfmike 2005

  • The conductor, an old Italian named Oleg Caetani sounds like a shoe designer, paced the music at truly slow, lugubrious tempos, which is the quickest way to kill a Bel Canto opera imaginable.

    The Destiny of Norma sfmike 2005

  • The City of Côte Saint-Luc on the Island of Montreal is looking at reversing a decades-old bylaw forbidding temporary carports - known as tempos - after some residents asked that the ban be lifted.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2010

  • The City of Côte Saint-Luc on the Island of Montreal is looking at reversing a decades-old bylaw forbidding temporary carports - known as tempos - after some residents asked that the ban be lifted.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2010

  • And that was quite apparent of the new material; the tempos are a bit faster, which continues on the grand tradition of what everyone at a Hot Chip show comes to expect: dancing!

    Spinner 2010

  • The shelter reminded him of the old days, when construction crews lived in "tempos": temporary shelters made of expended spacecraft sections, thin aluminum cylinders that they buried under a few feet of rubble scooped up from the regolith.

    Empire Builders Bova, Ben 1993

  • DeJohnette has said he loves playing slow, ballad tempos which is good considering some of the songs on here.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2008

  • DeJohnette has said he loves playing slow, ballad tempos which is good considering some of the songs on here.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2008

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