It is a good idea to place your order well in advance as delivery can often take months rather than weeks.
早早提前订购是个好主意，因为交货常常要花几个月的时间，而不是几星期。
The job will take months rather than weeks.
完成这项工作需要几个月，而不是几周。
Iterations often take hours or days rather than weeks.
迭代过程通常只花费几个小时或者几天，而不是几周。
The job will take months rather than weeks. It's no easy at all.
根本就不容易，这工作要花数月而不是几周。
The job will take months rather than weeks. It's no easy at all.
根本就不轻易，这工作要花数月而不是几周。
They have the capability to destroy the enemy in days rather than weeks.
他们有能力在几天内，而不是几个星期内消灭敌人。
The Royal Bank of Scotland sets deadlines for internal projects in days rather than weeks.
苏格兰皇家银行(Royal Bank of Scotland)对内部项目设定最后期限时，使用的时间单位是天数而不是周数。
The orders from Barack Obama were to end their involvement within days rather than weeks, which they did.
巴拉克·奥巴马下达的命令是在数日之内(而非数周之内)尽快结束这样的干预行动，事实的确如此。
And receiving an accurate diagnosis within days rather than weeks could mean they are treated more quickly and stand a greater chance of total recovery.
几天之内而不是几周内就可以获得结果意味着他们可以更早的接受治疗，他们有着更大的机会去获得彻底康复。
When one can obtain virtual machines in minutes by filling out a web form rather than weeks by sending an email request to a human with other priorities, one will use more virtual machines.
人们通过填写网络表格就可以在几分钟内获取虚拟机，而不用向一个工作繁忙的人发送电子邮件请求数周，人们会用到更多的虚拟机。
But with enough practice it will become a habit and you will find yourself working through negative emotions in minutes or hours rather than obsessing for days, weeks, or years!
但是要多练习，这样就能成为习惯，你就会发现自己花几分钟或几个小时就能克服负面情绪了，而不会再被这种情绪困扰好几天、好几周、甚至是好几年的时间！
A few weeks ago I saw this sign: “I’d rather change my mind and succeed than have my own way and fail.”
几周前我看到这段标记：”我喜欢改变自己的想法而获得成功，而不是一成不变坐以待毙。
Sixty-one percent of the women surveyed said they would rather give up watching television for two weeks than give up access to the Internet for one week.
61%的受访女性称她们宁愿两周不看电视，也不能忍受一周不上网。
Returning to the gym example, rather than trying to start out by going 5 times a week for an hour at a time, try to go three times a week for 30 minutes for the first few weeks.
回到健身房的那个例子，不要一开始就制定一个星期锻炼5次的标准而是每次进行一个小时锻炼的标准，或在开始的几周一周三次，每次30分钟的标准。
Other analysts suggest the cost reductions may occur in the next few weeks and could also include more targeted cutbacks and attrition, rather than the big number of layoffs that some have speculated.
其他分析师暗示降低成本可能会发生在未来几周内，可能还包括目标更明确的裁员和自然减员，而不是象一些人猜测的那样大量的裁员。
In other words, it was time to shift from analysis into architecture and design — and sooner rather than later, since most of the technical risks would crop up over the next few weeks.
换句话说，是时候从分析转移到架构和设计了—尽可能快而不是晚，因为大多数的技术风险将在接下来的几周显现出来。
The automated learning techniques in this project allow a new language to be added in two weeks of work rather than the two decades it previously took.
这个项目中的自动学习技术使得添加一门新的语言只要两周的时间，而不是以前的二十年。
However, the employer will now be getting 6% less work performed because everyone is only working 49 weeks a year rather than 52 weeks.
但是，现在雇主将会少获得6%的工作量，因为每个人每年只工作49周，而不再是52周。
The transfer of useful characteristics might now take weeks, rather than decades.
优势性征的转让在现在只需要数周时间，而不是几十年。
Rather than taking weeks to be delivered by horse-and-carriage mail carts, pieces of news could be exchanged between telegraph stations almost instantly.
相比于由马车送信需要数星期，一条条信息通过电报站几乎立即就能发送出去。
I was at a briefing a couple of weeks ago held by one of the big Banks and heard their analysts talking up the prospects of Indonesia and the Philippines this year, rather than Vietnam.
在几星期前，在由一个大银行举办的发布会上，我听见他们的分析家商谈印度尼西亚和菲律宾的前景，而不是越南。
And for the time being, it would be unsurprising if Mr Brown were planning weeks rather than months ahead.
当前而言，布朗先生掰着指头按星期算，不是按月算前面的日子，一点也不稀奇。
From this autumn, shortage occupation jobs will have to advertised for four weeks rather than the current two before they can be filled by non-European skilled workers.
从今年秋季开始，要聘用非欧洲技术工的短缺职位广告得刊登四周时间，而不是目前的两周。
Working software can be delivered frequently, in weeks rather than months.
可以按照数周而不是数月的间隔频繁地交付可工作的软件。
He reckons that the unemployment rate would be 6.8% rather than 9.5% if benefits had remained at 26 weeks.
据他估测，若救济时限仍为26周的话，失业率将不是9.5%，而是6.8%。
And the changes may occur in seconds (rather than days or weeks), giving the administrator little time to respond.
变化可能在数秒内(而不是数天或数星期内)发生，因此留给管理员作出响应的时间就很短。
And the changes may occur in seconds (rather than days or weeks), giving the administrator little time to respond.
变化可能在数秒内(而不是数天或数星期内)发生，因此留给管理员作出响应的时间就很短。
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