No one keeps an exact count, but rough calculations based on the government's survey suggest that perhaps 1,600 American public and private schools are teaching Chinese, up from 300 or so a decade ago.

没有人知道确切的数字，但是根据政府的调查，粗略计算之后显示，大约有1600所美国公立和私立学校在教授中文，而十年前只有300所左右。

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Third, despite the recent pick-up in global economic activity, Japan cannot count on foreign demand being strong enough for it to sustain export-led growth, as it did in the past decade.

第三，尽管最近国际经济形势回暖，但是日本绝对不要指望外国需求像过去几十年一样强劲，也不要指望靠它来拉动出口，促进经济增长。

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By one count, over 2, 700 coalition soldiers have died as a result of the decade-old war, and many thousands more Afghans have lost their lives in the fighting.

一方面，2700多名的联军士兵死于这场10年之久的战争，数以千万计的阿富汗人们在战斗中丧生。

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And there is increasing indirect American investment in the island: many of the multinationals from Europe and Canada that have set up operations in Cuba since Mr Castro's opening to foreign investment a decade ago count American institutions among their shareholders.

ECONOMIST: Cuba and the United States

Yet none of the latter has led to prosecutions in the last decade (unless you count repeat offender Harold Nicholson, whose original 1997 sentence was extended eight years when he tried to resume spying by tasking his own son from his jail cell).

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Because the market was so high about a decade ago--dividend yields got down to about 1% and PE got up to almost 40 times--as I say in my book and as I said in the speech I gave at Princeton called "Don't Count On It, " if you think the stock market is going to give a positive return in the next decade, don't count on it.

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