He ran a property development business in the eighties.

他在80年代经营一家房地产开发公司。

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History has entered the eighties.

历史进入到八十年代。

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Despite a slow start at the beginning of the eighties, global economic output increased by more than a fifth during the decade.

尽管在80年代初起步缓慢，全球经济产出在这十年中增长了百分之二十以上。

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That would include herself, a child of the eighties.

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The settlers had plans to remove water from the area and in the eighteen eighties developers began digging drainage canals.

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They are being honored for their work in the nineteen eighties about the health of cells and the aging process.

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Personal computers achieved this during the eighties, and the Internet did the trick in the nineties.

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Securitization of mortgages started in the eighties, the brainchild of Lew Ranieri then at Salomon Brothers.

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Throughout the eighties and nineties, Microsoft was one of the most innovative companies in the world.

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