Even though the recession has forced a drop in the amount it costs to buy commercials in the big game for just the second time in history, they are still the most expensive on television.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

By that time, I had Saved a pretty big amount of money for those days.

到那时为止,我已为下个时期积攒下了大笔的积蓄。

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Portion sizes, and we'll devote a class to this later on, have gone way up and that's a big problem, the amount of processing I mentioned.

食物份量直线上升,这是个问题,我们将专门用一堂课讲这个,即刚才提到的食品加工程度的问题

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