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/tuː ˈθaʊ.zəndz/
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The decade that began on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009.
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Prominent in the 1980s and 1990s for the part it played in Postmodernism and then in Deconstruction, in the 2000s AD has leveraged a depth and level of scrutiny not currently offered elsewhere in the design press.
When asked about how many planes Epstein owned […] [Maxwell] answered "in the '90s he had one plane and at some point in the 2000s he had two planes," demonstrating a clear understanding of how decades are described.
The century that began on January 1, 2000 and ends on December 31, 2099.
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The people of the late 19th century approached the 20th with the same awe with which we see the 2000s.
The converted code will be able to handle dates that span centuries (1800s, 1900s, and 2000s at least).
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In the first decade of the 2000s, there was a significant increase in traffic as a result of a Europe - wide liberalization of air transport activities, cheap tickets offered by low - cost airlines and the related price competition.
The 1900s and 2000s are centuries that highlight without question the ability of the federal government to advocate elite-class dominance over the laborers equivalent to those of the great empires in world history.
TABLE 1.2.1d Homicide Rates in Asian and Oceanic Countries. / Rates per 100,000 | Centuries / 1900s | 2000s
The millennium that began on January 1, 2000 and ends on December 31, 2999.
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What Roman numeral might you find in the cornerstone of a building built in the year 2000? MM – the mark of the new millennium, a move from the 1000s to the 2000s.
The current four-phase American cycle started in the days immediately following World War II with the First Turning of the Millennial Cycle, so named because it would bridge America from one millennium (the 1000s) to the next (the 2000s).
Only instead of cobwebs, my distraction was thoughts about the coming new millennium—the 2000s.[…]Supported by the reappearance of the decade-number 1, during that decade, the decade just finished, we saw the waning masculine-energy of the 1000s doing all it could to hang on to its power and dominance.