What does the word ten mean?

Usage examples for ten

  1. This is my first good chance to work for ten years." – The Very Small Person by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  2. You can hear a train about ten miles off that way. – Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  3. And in five years- or ten- you'll come to me. – The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Various