About two thousand five hundred years ago the first houses appeared on the flat tops of mesas in what is now northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Think about the advent of hedge funds -twenty or twenty-five years ago, hedge funds were a blip on the radar screen.

想想对冲基金刚出现时,差不多20或25年前,它就像雷达屏幕上的一个小点

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Over the last five, ten years there's been some work done on this.

在过去五，十年里,有人做了一些有关笑的研究。

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Five years ago, dairy farmer Darryl Vander Haak flipped the switch on the first electric generator in Washington State powered by manure.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

What that means is that you would borrow $5,000 to buy a house and in five years and every year along the way you'd be paying interest on your mortgage.

它的意思是,你借了5000美元去买一所房子,期限是五年,在这五年内,每年你要归还抵押贷款的利息

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Secretary Gates indicated the pace of the transition could roughly match President Karzai's stated desire for his forces to be operating on their own in five years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The British only stayed for a week, then marched out of town on July 4th, five years to the day after the American colonies had first declared their independence.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

"I embarked on the road of sustainability or ethics or biodiversity about five years ago, when I founded a company called Noir I work with 16,000 farmers in Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Romer appeared on Fox News Sunday. "When you get out five,10 years,they are assuming that real GDP [U.S.gross domestic product is only going to grow 2.2 or 2.3 percent a year,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

I will give you all development and all you have to do is every once in five years make sure you come and vote for me, and this thing will go on,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24