That's nearly two and a half times around Earth! For the first time, Coca Cola has shown that it uses 3,000,000 tons of plastic bottles each year.

这差不多是地球的2.5倍！这是第一次可口可乐公司表示它每年使用300万吨塑料瓶。

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I am teaching a course on the literature of the Renaissance in the first half of the year.

我在上半年教一门关于文艺复兴时期文学的课程。

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Together these could have cut 1.5 percentage points from growth in the first half of this year, yielding a feeble 2 per cent - too slow to put a dent in unemployment.

这些因素加总在一起，可能会将今年上半年的经济增速拉低1.5个百分点，使增长率降至乏力的2%——这一增速过于缓慢，无助于缓解减少。

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This year alone, since the first of January, we have had more than 70 incidents, just in the first two-and-a-half months of this year."

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Between January and June Japanese firms made 262 foreign acquisitions, according to Recof, a consultancy: a record for the first half of a year.

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"Somebody" also marks the first time a song has sold over 5 million in the first half of a year, though Gotye's smash wasn't alone in that feat, joined by Fun.

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Wage and salary growth has slowed from about 4.5% before inflation year-over-year during the height of QE2 during first half of last year to a meager 3.2% nominal growth year over year since the start of this year.

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