But sales in the West increased by nineteen percent in March from a year before.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

and then I worked in an auction house; "Christie's", for a year before applying to come back to graduate school.

在我申请研究生院之前我还在佳士得拍卖行工作了一年。

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They stay at Sinai for a year, I believe, in the text, before they begin their movement, and Numbers contains some law, and much narrative material.

他们在西奈呆了一年，我认为，文中这么写，在他们开始迁移之前，《民数记》中有很多法规和叙述材料。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Students must have attended Mizzou for a year before they can receive a grant.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out all in one volume. They had been written over a series of years, got a lot of exposure--called "The Literature of Exhaustion."

在写完这一卷故事的前一年,巴斯写了一篇著名的论文，在60年代，叫《枯竭的文学》

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They burned the captured supplies. Then they moved a few kilometers away to a long, low hill just northwest of the Bull Run battleground, where southern forces defeated a northern army a year before.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

To my surprise, nobody had before created a hundred-year long home price index, which seems surprising to me because the long history of home prices seems like a relevant fact; we want to know what markets do.

让我惊讶的是,此前居然没有人建立百年房屋价格指数,这点让我很惊讶,因为长期的历史房屋价格,看起来似乎是有关联的,我们很想知道市场的动向

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

As Russia struggles in the embrace of the worst drought since 1880, the Kremlin worries that food prices will shoot up, blowing apart inflation targets for this year, a year before parliamentary elections.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

because it's a... They're digging it all up before the Olympics next year.

因为它是……在明年奥运会之前人们要翻修它。

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If possible, in the year before you plant potatoes, plant a cover crop to improve the soil and the potato production.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Some students work for a year or two in a medical or research job before they attempt to enter medical school.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death before the age of sixty.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Just before the first of the year, a congressman asked the president if he still planned to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

The country had suffered a serious economic depression the year before, and jobs were difficult to find.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

The year before,he first played with the United States National Team in a victory over Costa Rica.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

He died in a car accident in nineteen fifty-five before the movie was released the next year.

VOA: special.2011.04.03

That was where the Union army had lost a battle to the Confederates one year before.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

In the year and a half before the ban, hospitals had 399 admissions for heart attacks.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

The show ran for over a year, before traveling around the United States and Europe.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

"I'd lost a lot of championships before that year, so that was a special game."

VOA: special.2010.06.02

They had met her at a shelter at a railway station the year before.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

The year before,southern troops sent a northern army fleeing from Bull Run.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

That was a decrease of ten percent from the year before.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

That same year, then President John F.Kennedy vowed in a speech before the U.S.Congress to put a man on the moon.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Thursday in Bangkok, Marciel said they urged the Burmese to begin a dialogue with the opposition National League for Democracy before next year's elections.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

A year ago around 90 percent did. Also,more women receive care before giving birth than ever before, and more midwives are present at births.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

President Obama and congressional Democrats want a health-care package approved before next year's midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

The 58-year-old Franken is a former comedian and actor who also served as a liberal radio talk show host before deciding to run for office.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

Days before the expiration of a four-year term as Fed chief, Bernanke faces growing opposition from Democratic and Republican senators who will vote on his reconfirmation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24