What was nice was that I was very calm and relaxed prior to the race; as I was in former years .

赛前我感觉很平静，很轻松，就和之前的一样，这点非常好。

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And in former years, the first season is the period that outstanding achievement increases strong.

而往年，第一季都是业绩强劲增长的时期。

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The former US ambassador to Ireland has behaved most undiplomatically by describing his two years in Dublin as "very, very boring."

前美国驻爱尔兰大使称他在都柏林度过的两年“非常非常无聊”，这是不符合外交习惯的。

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Her identity became widely known years later as a result of a legal fight between Stratemeyer Syndicate and its former publisher.

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Twenty years ago, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development was created to help former communist countries after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Fifty years ago, a former governor of New York state, Alfred Smith, criticized some claims by President Franklin Roosevelt about the successes of the Roosevelt administration.

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But, whether with truth or even falsehood truth, most Mexicans reckon the cosy kinship of former years is being sliced apart.

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Last month, a court in Milan sentenced Italy's former intelligence chief Nicolo Pollari to 10 years in prison, and his former deputy, Marco Mancini, to nine years, over the Abu Omar case.

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But for the past few years former Alwaleed executives have been telling me that the prince, while indeed one of the richest men in the world, systematically exaggerates his net worth by several billion dollars.

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