After adopting this technique, the production period of tube plate for low-pressure heater can at least shorten half comparing with the former, meanwhile the cost can at least decrease two thirds.

采用该技术后，低加管板的生产周期比原来至少缩短一半，成本至少降低三分之二。

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The Turks' refusal to grant any serious autonomy to their large Kurdish minority has helped prolong a guerrilla war that has cost at least six times as many lives, over a much shorter period, as have been lost in the Basque and Irish conflicts put together.

ECONOMIST: Devolution can be salvation