Even in well run Finland, the census-takers have to combine information from several dozen different data sets; efforts to link them started fully 50 years ago.

即便在管理得法的芬兰，普查工作者也需要综合几十个数据库的资料，而芬兰从50年前就开始试图整合这些数据库。

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If a crime took place several years ago, notes Ms Powell, a Greek court may regard it as time-barred and decline to extradite, even though other EU countries would count it as still prosecutable.

如果一桩罪行发生在多年前，鲍威尔女士指出，希腊法院可能认为已失时效而拒绝引渡，但欧盟其他国家却认为仍具有追诉时效。

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He even reconciled with a classmate with whom he had had trouble several years ago.

他甚至和一位积怨多年的同学言归于好。

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Patrick Yau, an analyst at Macquarie Research, thinks Olam's earnings per share will grow an average of 14% over two years, even though several of its commodities, which spiked not long ago, have plunged back down.

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