I had gained weight in the form of muscle mass, but thinking only of lowering the number on the scale, I altered my training program.

肌肉量增大，我的体重就增加了，但因为只想着降低体重称上的数字，我改变了训练计划。

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A number of small-scale studies have already indicated that there is a relationship between diet and cancer.

一些小规模的研究已经表明，饮食和癌症之间有一种联系。

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A fair number of people advocate a large-scale shift to organic farming from conventional agriculture.

相当多的人主张从传统农业向有机农业大规模转移。

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So we are going to be fighting a huge number of technology challenges. Then there is the whole scale issue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Well, it's around 750, a great number of the changes that moved the Greeks away from the Dark Age kind of society to the full scale polis begin.

在大约公元前七百五十年,发生了许多变化,这些变化将希腊从黑暗时代的社会形态中拽出,进而开始了全面的城邦社会

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"If you see a number of scores on a hundred point scale on the 40,50,60 range that suggests that people are moving back and forth.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

They are also of vital interest to private businesses, which have continued to grow rapidly in number and scale under Mr Hu and Mr Wen.

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And whatever number you pick on the scale of cooperation, that number represents significant success in combating terrorism and eliminating terrorists -- terrorists who threaten Pakistan, terrorists who threaten the United States and threaten our allies.

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The movie review website has become a useful short hand for how well a film is being reviewed because it takes a lot of reviews and aggregates them into one easy number on a scale of 1 to 100.

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