"You have had a decade or more in Africa of very slow economic progress in the nineties.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

By the 1820s, already, within a decade of the War of 1812 and the opening of the frontier, cotton's future seemed limitless.

截至十九世纪二十年代,这其中包括了1812年开战的十年战争,以及边疆的开拓,棉花产业的未来似乎无限

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The government has liberized the economy and that has of course been playing a role but the growth acceleration started almost a decade before that, so the factors are a little more complex.

印度政府让经济自由发展,这一决策显然是起了作用的,但在这一决策出现约10年前,印度经济的加速发展便开始了,所以经济腾飞的原因还比较复杂。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Dr.Anond Snidvongs, who has studied climate change for more than a decade, has analyzed storm data over the past 60 years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

If you had five slaves and a good piece of land in Alabama in 1820, you might very likely have fifty slaves and a hell of a lot more land a decade later.

820年,如果你在阿拉巴马州,拥有五个奴隶和一块肥沃的土地,十年后你很可能就会拥有五十个奴隶,以及更多的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Dr. William Abraham of Ohio State University "It has been a decade since we have seen a trial this positive."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

His first treatise, a book called De Cive, or De Cive, depending on how you pronounce it, On the Citizen, was published in 1642, and it was a kind of draft version of Leviathan that was published almost a decade later, again in 1651.

他第一篇论文，叫De，Cive的书，意思就是《论人》,1642年出版，这也算是《利维坦》的草稿版本,而《利维坦》几乎在10年以后，1651年才出版。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The last major disruption to European aviation followed the September 11 attacks in the United States almost a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

This is maybe not widely appreciated, but every decade that goes by we do a better job of incentvizing people and preventing them from being discouraged by risks.

也许在当下，一些措施看似并非有效，但若以十年跨度回望,我们所采取的措施确实能有效地激励人们,并且防止他们因风险受挫。

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Chuo University Professor Stephen Reed says the DPJ is a stronger party than it was a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

no immediate problem but if this continues onto the end of the decade, re approaching right now, there is going to be a disaster.

不会有立竿见影的问题,但如果继续这样做的话，十年以后，也就是我们现在这个时候，which，is，what，we’,会发生灾难。

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This will provide crucial clues to what caused the crash - India's worst in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

But Russia itself has no worse loss for the United States right now could find ways to keep us so tight down in the Middle East for a decade that we could do nothing else.

俄罗斯现在还没有对美利益造成太大损害,有办法,让我们紧紧围绕在中东问题上,在十年内我们只有束手无策。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It is the same disease that caused the death a decade ago of former star National Football League running back Walter Payton.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Since the federal law was passed a decade ago, many state and local communities have followed suit.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

They are coming in when they are symptomatic, which is usually after a decade of infection.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

Phyu Phyu Aye,a Burmese refugee who's lived in the United States for a decade,teaches sewing, but also advises her students on many cultural issues.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Now there are about 41 million. This year alone China is set to sell about 11 million cars, of cars sold a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

The moon landing was seen as the high point of a U.S.space program fueled by a decade-long space race with the former Soviet Union.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

The senator is the first U.S.member of Congress to visit Burma in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Dr.Welch stopped smoking more than a decade ago, and he persuaded his son to quit also.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Even after a decade-long decline in illegal logging,Ritter says, there's still a long way to go.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

People who lived through the events of that day say that nearly a decade later, they are worried that the tragedy is slowly being forgotten.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

She bought it after living alone in an apartment for more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

"For too long,for a decade or more, there has been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency that permits them to drill."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

the rate has dropped to 83 per 1,000,down sharply from 124 a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

University-level research papers, she says,are now being peppered with casual phrases like "you know" and words like "guy" informal usages that were absent almost a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Mr.Toure recognized those who had worked on the legislation and assured them that this new code, nearly a decade in the making, was not being abandoned entirely.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

He retired more than a decade ago to become a Buddhist monk but the Japanese government brought him out of retirement to bring JAL out of bankruptcy.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and for a decade he's been posting gorgeous photographs of snowflakes and a lot more on his website, SnowCrystals.com.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19