For example, sleep duration has declined from some 8 hours in the 1950s to 7 in recent years.
例如，睡眠时间从20世纪50年代的8小时左右下降到近年来的7小时。
In recent years, new clues have come from research into genetics, including the distribution of genetic markers in modern Native Americans.
近年来，遗传学研究提供了新的线索，包括现代美洲土著民基因标记的分布。
The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades.
他特别提到，最近几十年，无论是在美国还是在英国，持有一支股票的平均时间都从七年下降到了七个月。
Although online retailing has existed for some twenty years, nearly half of the internet retailers still fail to receive satisfactory feedback from consumers, according to a recent survey.
根据最近的一项调查，尽管网上零售已经存在了大约20年，但近一半的网上零售商仍然没有收到满意的消费者反馈。
The drift of the last glaciation was deposited during one of the most recent epochs of geologic time, the Pleistocene, which lasted from 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago.
最后一次冰川作用的漂浮物沉积在最近的其中一个地质时期——更新世，这段时期从180万年前持续到1万年前。
Although recent years have seen substantial reductions in noxious pollutants from individual motor vehicles, the number of such vehicles has been steadily increasing.
虽然近年来机动车排放的有害污染物大幅减少，但机动车的数量一直在稳步增加。
Recent evidence favors a rival to the long-standing theory that the Americas were colonized 11,000-12,000 years ago by people migrating south from Beringia along a midcontinental ice-free corridor.
最近的证据支持了一个与长期存在的理论对立的观点，该理论认为，在1.1万至1.2万年前，美洲是由从白令海峡沿中大陆无冰走廊向南迁移的人殖民的。
At the same time, from a recent study, many children have missed out on 4,500 hours of sleep by the time they are seven years old.
同时，最近一项研究显示，许多儿童到7岁时已少睡了4500个小时。
With the efforts of China's government and its people, the rate of forest coverage in China has reached 96%, compared to 5% forty years ago, according to a recent report from the State Forestry and Grassland Administration.
据国家林业和草原局最近的一份报告显示，通过中国政府和人民的努力，与四十年前的5%相比，中国的森林覆盖率已经达到96%。
And, Turkey has a strong and vibrant private sector that has benefited greatly from the economic growth of recent years.
土耳其有个强大和活跃的私营部门，它从近年的经济增长中获得了巨大的收益。
These shows of restraint may signal a turnaround from the whopping tuition increases of recent years, as some schools now consider using their endowments to control price hikes.
这些抑制学费的措施也许是最近几年学费暴涨的形势发生逆转的迹象，因为一些学校目前已经开始考虑用所获得的资助来控制价格上涨。
Land conflicts in Somalia, dust storms in Asia and the food price crises of recent years all stem from the degradation of land, he said, due to overuse by humans and the impacts of global warming.
他说，索马里的土地冲突、亚洲的沙尘暴和近几年的粮价危机都源于土地退化，而土地退化是由于人类对土地的过度使用和全球变暖的影响。
They range from the very recent to objects hundreds of years old which tell us something about the changing effect of technology on our lives.
它们涵盖了从近代的到数百年之前的物品，都在讲述着有关科技改变影响着我们的生活的故事。
The booming industries of recent years, from construction to finance, will not bounce back.
近年来的繁荣产业，从建筑到金融，其昔日辉煌将不会再现。
Views about the use of insecticides for indoor protection from malaria have been changing in recent years.
近年来，关于使用杀虫剂在室内避免疟疾的观点一直在发生变化。
There has been a trend in recent years away from distributed systems and toward the datacenter, particular with the rise of servers and datacenter consolidation.
近几年，尤其是随着服务器和数据中心整合的出现，已经出现了从分布式系统向数据中心转移的趋势。
The best emerging-market companies have learned a great deal from the West in recent years. It is time for Western multinationals to return the compliment.
近年来新兴市场最优秀的企业们已经如饥似渴的学习了西方经验，现在是西方公司不耻下问的时候了。
In recent years the Gilbreths 'work has largely disappeared from the management Canon, with time-and-motion studies mostly associated with Taylor.
近年来，在管理类圣典中已难觅吉尔·布里斯夫妇的著作，时间-动作研究也多与泰勒联系在一起。
Liberia and Sierra Leone have been pulled back from the brink of utter chaos in recent years, and both are now at peace.
利比里亚和塞拉利昂几年前从绝对混乱的边缘被拉回来，而且现在依然保持和平。
Senior U.S. officials have been absent from gatherings such as the Asean Regional Forum in recent years.
在近几年的东盟地区论坛等会议上，美国高级官员一直没有参加。
The most recent figures from Eurostat, the European statistics agency, suggest that youth unemployment, for many years low in Britain, is now higher than the euro-area average.
来自欧洲统计局最近数据表明：多年来，英国青年失业率一直很低，而如今却高出了欧元区平均水平。
But the lesson from America in recent years is surely that it is better to prevent bubbles forming.
但近年美国的教训是中国确实更好的阻止了泡沫的形成。
More and more students have chosen to enter the commercial field instead of the teaching field after graduating from colleges in recent years. It has become a trend.
近几年来，越来越多的学生大学毕业后选择了进入商业领域而不是教育领域，这似乎正成为一种风气。
That is a departure from recent years, when many of the companies spent heavily and relied on debt and equity markets to provide additional cash.
这与它们近几年的做法大相径庭，那时许多这类企业都依赖股市和债市来筹集需要额外的资金。
Newton st Loe's oldest buildings date from the 15th century, and it has changed little in recent years.
牛顿·圣洛最古老的建筑始建于公元15世纪，近年来几乎没有变化。
From 2007 to 2009, the most-recent years for which data are available, it widened a little.
从2007年到2009年(有据可查的最近几年)，收入的不平等程度有所扩大。
The junta ruling Myanmar has had 20 years to digest the lessons from the country's most recent election.
缅甸最近的一次选举要追溯到20年前，这个军人统治的国度这些年来一直在消化该次大选的教训。
But the biggest shadow over the event was the remembrance of two sad stories from recent years.
但笼罩在赛事上方最大的阴影是近年来两起悲剧的记忆。
But the biggest shadow over the event was the remembrance of two sad stories from recent years.
但笼罩在赛事上方最大的阴影是近年来两起悲剧的记忆。
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