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  • adjective Attributive form of ten to, noun.

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Examples

  • Jolly had probably worked a ten-to fifteen-minute radius from the freight line.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • Jolly had probably worked a ten-to fifteen-minute radius from the freight line.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • That meant someone had put a ten-to fifteen-year-old skeleton in the house after Melinda Redmond moved out.

    Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009

  • That meant someone had put a ten-to fifteen-year-old skeleton in the house after Melinda Redmond moved out.

    Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009

  • We had a great ten-to 15-year period in the 80s and 90s, of 20, 30, and 40 percent growth rates.

    Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us Emily Yellin 2009

  • That meant someone had put a ten-to fifteen-year-old skeleton in the house after Melinda Redmond moved out.

    Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009

  • In the course of a week on several different rivers, we got strikes from maybe two dozen muskies, most of them on those two ten-to twelve-hour days when we were actually fishing for them.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • In the course of a week on several different rivers, we got strikes from maybe two dozen muskies, most of them on those two ten-to twelve-hour days when we were actually fishing for them.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • According to a 2005 report commissioned by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine on trends affecting youth in developing countries, there are currently 1.5 billion ten-to twenty-four-year-olds on Earth, and 86 percent of them live in a developing country.

    The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

  • In the course of a week on several different rivers, we got strikes from maybe two dozen muskies, most of them on those two ten-to twelve-hour days when we were actually fishing for them.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

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