How do you read out 2000s? In the following sentence, I feel either reading 2000s as two thousands or twenty hundreds is incorrect. I mean you have to make clear that you are telling about any year within the first ten years of the twenty first cenrury, rather than any millenium or century. So how? ------------------------ While (a country) a did devalue the yuan in the 1990s and 2000s, (a placename--standing for a government) modified its currency policy in 2005 and allowed the yuan to appreciate. -----------------------------