He had closed his account with the bank five years earlier.

他早在5年前就已经跟银行结清了户头。

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At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.

Arts Economics 研究公司的创始人克莱尔·麦克安德鲁估算，在2007年的巅峰期，它的价值约为650亿美元，是五年前的两倍。

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Blacks die, on average, five years earlier than whites.

黑人的平均寿命也比白人短少5年。

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Five years earlier, another oceanographer learned of the trash after a shipment of rubber duckies got lost at sea.

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A group of more than one hundred Englishmen had arrived two years earlier, in fifteen eighty-five.

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"If we had proposed it five years earlier, we might have got shot, " says Carey.

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The former Sheffield United striker was jailed for five years earlier this year for raping the 19-year-old.

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The size of the digital universe this year will be tenfold what it was just five years earlier.

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