In her haste to complete the work on time, she made a number of mistakes.

她急急忙忙想按时完工，结果出了不少错。

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A growing number of people are returning to full-time education.

越来越多的人重返学校接受全日制教育。

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With time, they start to understand that a given number represents a quantity greater by one than the number coming before it.

随着时间的推移，他们开始明白，一个给定的数表示一个比它前面的数大1的数量。

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The Labor Department says first-time claims for jobless benefits took an unexpected drop last week, to the lowest number since 2009 began, and 20 percent lower than at its peak earlier in the year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

But in an economy that has lost jobs for 23 consecutive months, Hall noted that long-term unemployed continued to grow, rising by 293,000 to 5.9 million, with little change in the number of Americans employed part-time but seeking full-time work.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

By switching from full-time workers to a larger number of part-time workers, it would make it appear that unemployment dropped even though the total amount paid to workers remained unchanged.

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Intermountain hired 21 respected doctors part-time and an equal number of full-time nurses to act as peer reviewers for doctors at Intermountain's far-flung operations.

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His problem is reaching out to swing voters at a time when the number of self-identified Republicans is up to ten points lower than the number of self-identified Democrats.

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