That is twelve percent more than last year, and equal to two-thirds of the world's population.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

I was braver now than last year, and there deciding what to do with my little concubine who was now 60 inches tall and weighed 90 pounds."

我现在比去年勇敢多了，到了那儿再决定拿这个小老婆,怎么办，她现在60英寸高，90磅重，“

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And, likewise, there will be a test running from 1:05 to 1:55: two different tests of comparable difficulty. I did this last year, and the difference in the scores on all three tests 1% was less than 1%.

还有，测试的时间会是,从1点5分到1点55分，两个不同的测试,但是难度差不多，我去年这样做过，3个测试的分数的区别,不到。

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She says they sold four thousand more tickets this year than last year.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

That is two years earlier than last year's prediction.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

The $2.4 billion figure approved by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis is $350 million less than last year's amount, which was set before the full effects of the world economic slump were known.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

The latest report estimated charitable giving in the United States last year at more than three hundred seven billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

NACE's latest survey in March found that employers expected to hire twenty-two percent fewer graduates this year than last.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that more than one billion of the world's people faced hunger last year.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Last week,W.W.E.officials reported the company earned more than one hundred seventeen million dollars in the fourth financial period of last year.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

That was down from last year, when more than three thousand walkers raised almost seven and a half million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

America's National Cancer Institute reports that more than one million people in the United States developed skin cancer last year.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

And in the Philippines, more than two hundred thousand people are still living in shelters after severe storms last year.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

More than six hundred seventy-one thousand foreign students attended an American college or university during the last school year.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Last year was the first year since two thousand four that Hawaii has had fewer than seven million visitors.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But,as Faith Lapidus reports, the Census Bureau says more than one million women in America were stay-at-home mothers last year.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

"I know it's an election year. And after last week, it's clear that campaign fever has come even earlier than usual.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Earlier, the president noted a report which showed that Wall Street bankers got more than 18 billion dollars in bonuses last year.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

And he did it faster than the world record time Phelps set last year at the Beijing Olympics.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

It came the same day as the United Nations reported that more than two thousand civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

The association's market research shows that Americans spent more than forty-three billion dollars on pets,pet products and pet medical care last year.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Microsoft,in its struggle against Google, tried unsuccessfully last year to buy Yahoo for more than forty billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

The Census Bureau says more than forty-six million Americans, about fifteen and a half percent, did not have health insurance last year.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

It says the number of international students last year was almost fifteen percent higher than the last record setting year, two thousand two.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Last week's meeting in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, was the third Group of 20 summit in less than a year.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

BeadforLife reported sales in its last budget year of more than three and a half million dollars.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

The Bureau says pirates carried out more attacks last year in the area than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

And another British study reported last year that people whose index finger is shorter than their ring finger are at higher risk of osteoarthritis.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

More than six hundred seventy thousand international students attended an American college or university last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Last year,more than six hundred twenty thousand, or three and a half percent, were international students.

VOA: special.2009.02.05