In 1784, five years before he became President of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless.
1784年，也就是52岁的乔治·华盛顿当选美国总统的5年前，他几乎已经没有牙齿了。
Scientists say it may be five years before it is possible to test this medicine on human patients.
科学家们表示，在病人身上检测这种药物可能还需要5年时间。
Douglas remained at Chipembele for about five years before he was moved to another part of Zambia.
在奇彭贝莱待了大约5年后，道格拉斯被转移到了赞比亚的另一个地方。
He thinks that the stargate may have already been unearthed, but cannot be used because it probably takes about five years of consciousness expansion training before someone can walk through the gate.
他认为星际之门已经被发掘出来了，但是还不能使用，因为一个人在通过这个门之前需要大约五年时间的意识拓展训练。
He knows he has limited time before the rest of the movie-distribution industry realizes what has hit it. "We had DVD by mail mostly to ourselves for five years before Blockbuster attacked," he says.
他知道，他面前的时间有限，在其他的发行业明白是什么打击了它之前，“在百视发出攻击之前的五年，几乎只有我们有影碟邮寄，”他说。
Children who eat more chips, crisps, biscuits and pizza before the age of three have a lower IQ five years later, a study showed.
一份研究报告显示，那些在三岁之前食用过比常人更多的薯条、薯片、饼干、匹萨的儿童五年之后其智商通常会更低。
The last room is hung with 119 prints from Picasso’s Suite 347, aquatints and etchings made in 1968, five years before he died.
最后一个展厅挂着119副毕加索《347套房》系列版画、凹版腐蚀制版画和铜版画。 这些作品创作于艺术家逝世前五年的1968年。
Whereas if they spent just three months developing something new, it would be five years before you had it too.
反过来说，如果某个新功能，它开发了三个月，那么你需要五年才能做出来。
This was written, of course, a mere five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
当然，这是在柏林墙倒塌前仅仅五年的时候写的。
Yet it took five years before the Dreyfusards secured a second military trial, at which the captain was again found guilty, this time after the top brass forged evidence against him.
然而，德雷福斯一案历经五年才获得第二次军事审判机会，这次，在高级军官出示的伪证下，德雷福斯上尉再次被判有罪。
On average house prices in rich countries rise for around six years by around 50%, before falling for five years by 24%.
平均说来，富有国家的房价在六年间上涨50%左右之后，会在接下来五年间下降24%。
Poverty – which had been dropping across East Asia at an unprecedented rate of 9 percent a year in the five years before the crisis – started spiraling upwards again.
在危机前本来连续五年以每年9％的空前速度下降的贫困率又开始扶摇直上。
Meanwhile, our GDP has grown by 17.9% over the past five years, compared to 27.5% during the previous five years, and 32.9% during the five years before that.
与此同时，我们的GDP在过去的5年增长了17.9%，与之相比，此前5年的增长是27.5%，更早之前的5年GDP增长了32.9%。
Although it will be at least five years before any new drugs emerge, there may be subtle marketing benefits for Novartis in the meantime.
新药问世尽管至少需时五年，但诺华可能同时获取微妙的行销利益。
Five years, and you know, it will be 10 years before we know it.
五年！10年前我们甚至还不知道它。
She was elected to Parliament at 32 in 1958 (five years before the Feminine Mystique was published).
1958年(《女性的奥秘》发表前五年)她三十二岁时被选进议会。
Enron, the energy firm that was America's most infamous corporate-fraud case, paid cash tax of only 38% of its theoretical charge in the five years before its demise.
安然，一家能源公司、美国最臭名昭著商业欺诈案的主角，在倒闭前的5年里实际上缴的税款只有理论上需上缴税款的38%。
As a result it is likely to be five years before any product is on the market.
结果是任何产品上市前可能要花5年时间做临床实验。
Lehman Brothers' cash tax payments were only 64% of its theoretical accounting charges in the five years before its collapse.
雷曼兄弟在破产前的5年里实际上缴的税款只占理论上需上缴税款的64%。
In general, a tenure-track faculty member will hold a position for about five years before a formal decision is made on whether tenure will be granted.
一般来说，在正式决定是否授予终身聘任之前，终身教授将任职大约5年。
Air Liquide planned to recruit 25,000 new workers in five years before the crisis hit.
在危机发生前，法国液化空气公司曾计划在5年内招聘2.5万名新工人。
India's economy grew at nearly nine percent for five years before plummeting to 6.8 percent last year amid the global economic crisis.
印度经济在经历了五年近9%的增长之后，在全球经济危机中，去年大幅度下降到6.8%。
Before the first hit, the team spent five years on research and pre-production including spending some time in China.
首次成功上映前，剧组花了5年时间进行研究和前期制作，包括在中国居住一段时间。
And before you know it, it's five years, it's 10 years, it's gone out of your life.
在知道答案前，5年、10年就从你生命里过去了。
"It could take five or even 10 years" before some companies stop adding the chemical to food products, said Yan, of the U.S. Grains Council.
美国谷物协会的Yan认为让企业停止向食品中添加化学品需要五年甚至十年时间。
The coalition could break down before the five years expire.
此次联合可能在五年期限结束之前就破裂。
The strongest evidence of a continued chill is the sharp fall in share buybacks, which accounted for around one-third of growth in earnings per share in the five years before the credit crunch.
金融界的冬天还将持续，最明显的例证就是股票回购大幅减少。在信贷危机发生的五年前，每股收益的增长中约有三分之一是得益于股票回购。
The strongest evidence of a continued chill is the sharp fall in share buybacks, which accounted for around one-third of growth in earnings per share in the five years before the credit crunch.
金融界的冬天还将持续，最明显的例证就是股票回购大幅减少。在信贷危机发生的五年前，每股收益的增长中约有三分之一是得益于股票回购。
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