I knew she had some fundamental problems in her marriage because she had confided in me a year earlier.

我知道她的婚姻存在一些根本问题，因为她一年前曾向我吐露过。

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Huawei's smartphone sales around the world rose 50 percent compared with a year earlier in the first three months of 2019.

2019年的前三个月，华为在全球的智能手机销量同比增长了50%。

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A new study has found that most three-year-old children can remember a lot of what happened to them a year earlier, and these memories are still clear while they are 5 and 6, but by the time they are over 7, these memories become weaker rapidly.

一项新的研究发现，大多数三岁的孩子都能记得很多一年前发生在他们身上的事情，在他们5岁到6岁的时候，这些记忆仍然清晰，但当他们超过7岁时，这些记忆就会迅速变弱。

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But Chinese exports fell almost 3% in December from a year earlier - the sharpest drop in at least 10 years.

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There was a big doc-forum took place in Seoul earlier this year.

今年的早些时候，首尔举行了一场大型的纪录片论坛。

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But that was less than they fell at the end of two thousand eight compared to a year earlier.

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In Spain, lending declined by 12% from a year earlier, while it fell 7.2% in Slovenia.

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Government figures show that nominal wages were down 0.9% in March from a year earlier.

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Sales to that economically troubled region plunged 19% in April from a year earlier.

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