35% of staff time was being spent on repeating work, about the average for a service industry.

员工35%的时间花费在重复劳动上，大约是服务业的一般水平。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Shipley's forte is being able to do a lot of things at the same time with ease.

希普利的强项是他能同时轻松地做很多件事。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Fame is often simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time.

成名常常是身在其位，恰逢其时，仅此而已。

《牛津词典》

Owning another human being was legal in many parts of the United States at that time.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

I'm going to read passages quite a bit today, since some of you may not have been able to get the RIS packet in time, it being shopping period.

会怎样，可能有同学没拿到课件,我会多讲些，由于还没步入正轨。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It implies that this algorithm is calling itself again and again, and again, and on each time the size of the problem I'm trying to sort is being divided by what?

这就说明此算法会一次又一次地调用自己,每次我要排序的问题规模大小,会除以多少呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Most of the other relevant authorities have followed suit meaning most of the existing global fleet of the plane is out of service for the time being.

BBC: Boeing 787 Dreamliner: The impact of safety concerns

He also criticised the lack of the time being given to discuss the changes.

BBC: Northern Ireland MPs express benefits concern

The apartheid government over a long period of time and the atrocities being documented over a long period of time caused many around the world to call for divestment in South Africa, the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela, et cetera.

NPR: Activists Host Darfur Observance Day in L.A.