They clashed at Manassas, or Bull Run,Virginia, less than fifty kilometers from Washington.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Because you're going to run it and you'll probably find conditions under which you can run it more or less to completion.

因为如果你想进行这个反应,你总可以找到一定的条件,来或多或少实现这个反应。

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So in the sense there is opportunity, and there may be more opportunity in the long run even if kind of the entrepreneurial opportunities are less frothy than they might have been in the short run.

因此从这个意义上讲现在是大好时机，长期来看会有更多的机遇,如果创业的机会不像短期机遇,看起来那么空洞的话。

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The junta leader, who seized power less than a year ago, previously said he would not run in elections scheduled for January but has since indicated he may change his mind.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Less than two years later, Crist has left the Republican Party to run as an independent candidate in the race for a U.S.Senate seat in Florida, after realizing it was going to be impossible for him to win the Republican primary.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"We think that,in the long run, more legitimacy is good for that cooperation rather than less, and that more representation and more good governance and more democracy will give regimes the legitimacy they need to pursue a strategic relationship with the U.S."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19