For example, the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.
例如，LongNow基金会有一个作为旗舰项目的机械钟，它的设计目的是几千年后仍在计时。
Most of the time people chew their food slowly, as my mother taught me so many years ago.
大多数时候人们慢慢地咀嚼食物，就像许多年前我妈妈教我的那样。
Nowadays, the average weekly screen time for children is twice as much as it was five years ago.
如今，孩子们平均每周看电子屏幕的时间是五年前的两倍。
His last full-time job, as a merchandise buyer and product developer, ended four years ago when his employer went out of business.
他的上一份全职工作是商品采购和产品开发，四年前他的雇主倒闭了，他的工作也随之结束。
Hunt's put a "non-GMO" label on its canned crushed tomatoes a few years ago—despite the fact that at the time there was no such thing as a GMO tomato on the market.
汉斯公司几年前在其碎番茄罐头上贴上了“非转基因”的标签——尽管当时市场上并没有转基因番茄这种东西。
If successful, reaching the outer side of space could be as easy as flying abroad in a few years' time.
如果成功的话，在几年内，到达外太空就像飞到国外一样容易了。
By the time I joined Greener Group, they had cleaned the library as volunteers for 2 years.
在我加入绿色集团的时候，他们已经作为志愿者打扫图书馆两年了。
A few years ago, we started this kind of "favor war" where one of us would do something kind for the other, such as cleaning up the driveway or building a shed, and next time the other would try to top it with another favor.
几年前，我们开始了这种“人情战”，我们中的一个人会为另一个人做一些好事，比如清理车道或搭建棚子，下次另一个人就会试图用另一个人情来顶上。
Consider humans as part of these ecosystems, you've probably heard about water shortages or restrictions on how much water you can use, especially in the summer time, in recent years.
考虑到人类是这些生态系统的一部分，你可能听说过，水资源短缺可能会限制你可以使用多少水，特别是近些年夏天的时候，
The first, of 6, 846 people in Australia over several years, found people felt more pressed for time as their income rose.
第一，数年来，在澳大利亚的6,846人中，研究发现，随着收入增加人们感到时间更紧迫。
A few years ago this might have been sorted out quietly as a consular issue. Not this time.
要是在几年前，这件事情可能被悄无声息地被归为领事事务，但这次不一样。
As that interview question goes: where do you see yourself in five years time?
就像面试问题那样：你觉得五年之后自己是什么样子？
S: As we know, eight years is a very long time.
我们都知道八年是段漫长的时间。
Perhaps in another 100 years' time, they too will have matured, and become as much a part of the fabric of everyday life as electricity.
或许在另一个100年里，这些技术会更成熟，到时候它们就会像今天的电一样，成为平时生活的一部分。
A war in space, in many cases happening just outside of 'Earth space' over the course of approximately nine (9) years of Earth time, is as of this third quarter of 2011 in the final cleanup phase.
一场在太空的战争，许多情况下是发生地球空间之外，已跨越了约9年的地球时间，自2011年第三季度起是最后的清理阶段。
The emergence of the common cranefly, universally known as the daddy long legs, failed again for the third time in three years.
普通盲蜘蛛，就是全球知名的外号叫“长腿叔叔”的蜘蛛，今年依然没有出现，这已经是连续的第三年了。
It was more than I had had in my hands at one time for several years. I felt elated, as though perhaps a new life was opening before me.
我已有好几年没有一次拿到过这么多钱了，我兴高采烈，也许一种新生活就要在我面前展开了。
Home resales jumped by 9.4% in September from August, the biggest rise in 26 years, as first - time buyers rushed to take advantage of a tax credit that is about to expire.
买家们第一时间争先利用行将废除的税收抵免政策购房，使二手房价从八月至九月暴涨9.4%，创26年来涨幅新高。
It was drawn at the same time as the other — about eight years ago.
跟那一张是同时画的，大约有八年了。
As old-fashioned, unnecessary and hollow as his principles may seem, 24 years is a long time to pretend you don't have a girlfriend.
或许这种原则看起来有些过时、毫无必要甚至虚伪，但24年假装没女友也绝非易事。
Maybe in a hundred years time the science that comes out will seem as weird to people now as quantum mechanics does now to people of a couple hundred years ago.
也许百年后所出现的科学,对人们来说,也像几百年前的量子力学一样神秘。
As for me personally, I've been programming Ruby on Rails for almost 3 years now, spending a majority of the time as a contractor.
说一下我自己吧，我在RoR方面已经有了三年的编程经验，大多数时间都是作为一个订约人(Contractor)工作的。
It pinpointed the time as around 150,000 years ago as this was when cave art - one of the earliest forms of communication - began.
此研究指出，发源时间为15万年以前，因为此时正是洞穴艺术，也就是最早的交流方式开始的时间。
So even despite the iPhone hype, in the US at least (and probably other countries when it arrives) the iPhone will probably be seen in 10 years time as the breakthrough Mobile Web device.
所以即使不管iPhone的宣传，至少在美国(也可能是它抵达的其它国家)，十年之内iPhone都可能会被看为是移动网络设备的新突破。
The average length of time as a vegan or vegetarian was 5.7 years. Causes of death were as follows
其中，食用纯素或素食得时间平均为5.7年。
The old man looked at the picture, he felt as though he had gone back to time 20 years ago.
(用过去完成式表示与过去相反的事实)那老人看着照片，他觉得仿佛回到20年前的时光。
In the autumn of last year peace talks with part of the Palestinian leadership began again for the first time in seven years, though as this report went to press they were looking increasingly shaky.
在去年秋天，与巴勒斯坦部分首脑的和平会谈再次举行，这是七年内的第一次，但截至该文发表日，这次会谈似乎越来越不稳固。
Some markets that were overextended, such as Britain's, are already seeing aretreat for the first time in 15 years.
有些市场扩张也确实过头了，比如英国市场，它们已经感觉到了15年来的首次危险。
In some areas five years as a postdoc is now a prerequisite for landing a secure full-time job.
如今在有些地方，要获取全职工作岗位，先决条件是要有五年的博士后经历。
In some areas five years as a postdoc is now a prerequisite for landing a secure full-time job.
如今在有些地方，要获取全职工作岗位，先决条件是要有五年的博士后经历。
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