A middle-aged spinster, she had run Sir Claud 's house for him ever since his wife died some years earlier.

她是个中年妇女，从他妻子死后，一直由她来管理家务。

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It was a hope which reflected the conviction expressed some years earlier by the then British Prime Minister.

这个希望反映了若干年前当时在任的英国首相表达过的信念。

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The discovery of this "quantum Hall effect", which had been predicted some years earlier, earned von Klitzing the in 1985.

这一已经预告多年，最正中被称为“量子霍尔效应”的新发现为冯﹒克里钦赢得了1985年的诺贝尔物理学奖。

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Some years earlier, he had asked several people to invest in a gold mine he had in Death Valley.

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There's also some belief that the Vikings discovered America 300 years earlier.

也有人认为，维京人在那之前三百年就发现了美洲。

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Studies show that some American Robins are appearing in their nesting areas two weeks earlier than thirty years ago.

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The crash site had originally been discovered in dense jungle some years earlier.

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Keane's tackle earned him a red card but in his book, Keane - The Autobiography, he claims it was pre-meditated and provoked by an encounter between the two some years earlier.

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Mental illness has become so broadly defined and so common that it has become meaningless just as, some years earlier, counter-cultural rebellion became so common that it ceased to constitute rebellion at all.

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