The number of new houses being built is a good index of a country's prosperity.

新建房屋的数目是国家繁荣的一个有用指标。

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The new digital technology would allow a rapid expansion in the number of TV channels.

新的数码技术可使电视频道的数量得以快速增多。

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A number of colleges have amalgamated to form the new university.

一些学院联合组成了这所新大学。

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Intensive vaccination campaigns have reduced the number of new polio cases reported worldwide to fewer than two thousand a year.

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By the end of the period there was an unprecedented number of new religious groups.

在这段时期末,出现了空前多的新宗教派系。

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And then they moved to New Zealand and had the rest of us. So I am number eight.

然后他们搬去了新西兰，生下了其余的孩子。我排行老八。

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The duo take the new number of loan signings at the Kassam Stadium this week to three, following the arrival of Southampton midfielder Paul Wotton on Monday.

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These small net amounts obscure much of the churn in the labor market the gross number of new jobs created minus the gross number of new job losses.

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When the number of new jobs being created is less than the number of new entrants into the work force each month, the country is going backward.

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