September was a long way off.

那时离九月份还有很长一段时间。

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He had been running uphill a long way.

他向上坡跑了很长的一段路。

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The others are a long way behind.

其余的人远远地落在后面。

《牛津词典》

Historians say a trial in the colony of New York in seventeen thirty-five went a long way toward establishing this freedom.

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Said a different way, in the case of the straight-line programs, how long would it take to run a program?

换种说法，在直线式程序里面，运行一个程序要多长时间？

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And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

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Wilson is a block-long, one-way street at the point with a stop sign before it empties onto Kent.

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All of which is a long-winded way of saying that UK banks should be able to meet the new capital standard without taxpayers having to inject any new money.

BBC: EU banks may raise ?200bn

Every small business owner knows that the laws of finance will allow negative cash to be augmented with debt as a temporary means to an end, but not as a long-term way of life.

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