Several years had passed before she asked me again.

当她再次问我这个问题的时候，已经过去好几年了。

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Eight years had passed before Joseph succeeded.

8年过去了，约瑟夫成功了。

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Two years had passed since I'd first met Tony in Broadmoor.

从我在布罗德莫精神病院第一次见到托尼起已经过了两年了。

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Lincoln noted that seventy-two years had passed since the first president was inaugurated.

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Eight more years passed, Calvin,the father and Everett, the son still had nothing to say to each other.

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Two years had passed since U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to one of the same towns I visited.

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Three and a half years had passed since the Taft-Aldrich compromise supposedly relegated the income tax to the dust bin.

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