In the earlier years, all cellular phones shipped with external antennas that stuck out in aesthetically unpleasing ways.

在早些年，所有装有外部天线的手机在在审美上都是不好的。

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Sometimes, especially in the earlier years, it merely happened because no one knew or cared much how the name was spelled.

而有时，特别是早些时候，只是因为人们不知道或者不在意姓的拼写，就发生了这样的事情。

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He stated in the earlier years that he never really connected with any group or scene so he was going to create his own scene and it would make the other ones pale in comparison.

他指出在开始的时候他从未和任何组合或风格有过真正的联系所以他要做他自己的风格而那会让其他人在比较的时候脸色发白。

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Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

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We've had no down years since 1987--1987 that was the crash in October that I talked about earlier.

987年以后我们就没有亏损过,正是刚提过在十月发生了股灾的那个1987年

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Colonel Parker made sure that songs Elvis had recorded earlier were released during the years he was in the army.

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Plus their spouses, my parents, my sister and I and, in the earlier years, some older cousins.

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Yet that would be solely due to counting income in the later years that they did not count in the earlier years.

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So studies of wage, salary and labor income count this large source of income concentrated among the top income earners in the later years, but not in the earlier years, showing a large increase in inequality and in the incomes of the top earners over the years.

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