But,she said,the crew was cutting only a 30-meter firebreak, one-third the size ordered nationwide last week by Prime Minister Putin.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Taking the problem, recognizing that you know what, 8 even though this is a pretty big problem size 8 in this case and last time it was size 8 or in the case of the papers in size of a thousand roughly with the phonebook, I assume these are in a perfectly straight line they won't quite fit.

以这个问题为例，你们要认识到，在这种情况下，这是个比较大的问题，其大小是,上次它的大小也是8，但在纸片那个问题中,电话簿的规模大概是上千的，现在假设这些,杯子完全在同一条直线上，虽然并不十分符合这个条件。

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In the last three decades the lakes have shrunk to less than half of their original size.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16