The empire lasted a mere dozen years.
帝国只延续了十二年。
By 2001, I had worked in Afghanistan for more than a dozen years.
至2001年，我已经在阿富汗工作超过12年了。
After a dozen years of excess, the overextended American consumer is tapped out.
在十多年的过剩年代之后，过分扩张的美国消费者已经停止提供需求了。
Similar publications have been appearing in Shanghai for at least a dozen years.
在上海，类似的刊物纷纷出现，已经至少已有十几年。
In just a dozen years, China's car ownership increased by more than thirty times.
在短短的十几年时间里，中国的汽车保有量增加了三十余倍。
A dozen years ago ultra-fast broadband connections were rare; today they are ubiquitous.
十几年前超快的宽带连接很稀少，现今它们无所不在。
New York judges' pay has been frozen for a dozen years, even as their caseload has increased by 30%.
纽约州的法官尽管办案量增加了30%，但是薪水十几年来分文未涨。
There have been 200 of them in the last dozen years; in 2005 there were six times as many as in 1993.
在过去十几年中，这种地震发生了200起，2005年发生的次数是1993年的六倍。
Drugs now take a dozen years to be tested and approved, and 90% of meds that reach human clinical trial fail.
如今，药物的试验和审批需要耗费十几年时间，而在进入人类临床试验阶段的药物中，有90%都以失败告终。
Spain’s centralised wage-bargaining system awarded real pay rises of3.5% in May, the highest in a dozen years.
五月，中央工资调控机构实现了3.5%的实际工资增长，最近几年中最高的一次。
It is a dozen years since the last passenger jet, a small regional airliner, was assembled in the country.
距最后一架客机—一架小型支线飞机在该国组装已经十几年了。
The downside is that over the last 18 months, we've probably lost more old buildings than in the last dozen years.
当我们坐在吴江路的一家新开的咖啡店时，一位写上海的作家和顾问Paul French 说，“不幸的是在过去的18个月里，我们可能失去了比过去十几年失去的还多的老建筑。
I did not know it at the time, but she was the last human person I was to encounter for more than a dozen years.
当时我还不知道，在未来十几年间，她是我遇见的最后一个人类。
I did not know it at the time, but she was the last human person I was to encounter for more than a dozen years.
当时我还不知道，在未来十几年间，她是我遇见的非常后一个人类。
According to the latest projections, Africa will be severely affected as early as 2020. This is just a dozen years away.
据最新预测，到2020年，即十几年后，非洲即会受到严重影响。
In the dozen years since he reclaimed the failing company, he has turned it into a hard - driving, cash-generating machine.
重新执掌的十多年，他把苹果从当时一蹶不振的公司转变成一个冲劲十足的印钞机。
After a dozen years of growth, employment in America's law industry, the world's biggest, has declined for the past three years.
美国律师业是世界上最庞大的，在律师从业人数上曾12年连续增长，但在过去三年出现了负增长。
It reminded me of something a friend had told me a dozen years earlier in Moscow: in the heart of a Russian, it's always winter.
这让我想起十来年前一位朋友在莫斯科提醒我的：在俄罗斯的心脏，永远是冬天。
My position both privately and publicly expressed over the last dozen years or more, is that there are only two possibilities, either.
过去十几年或更长时间以来，无论是在私下或是公共场合，我都明确表示，这件事情只有两种可能。
My girlfriend and I had been living together for a dozen years, and those findings seemed so clear to me that I went home and proposed.
我和女朋友已经一起生活了十几年，而这些研究结果似乎很明确，所以我回家之后提了一个建议。
It's just a dozen years since the first medicine to treat MS was licensed, and now there is a large number of these in development.
仅仅十二年前，首例治疗MS的药物才获得批准，而如今有很多该类药物正在研发。
Biolistics, by virtue of its overwhelming practicality and effectiveness, has been applied in rice engineering breeding for a dozen years.
至今，基因枪法以其实用性和有效性应用于水稻工程育种已有十几年。
After a dozen years of gazing idly at the passing show, I have assembled, quite unbeknownst to them, a cast of characters that I depend on.
百无聊赖地观赏了十几年的街头景象，我大体是在不为人所知的情况下，拼凑了一个我能信得过的人物班底。
Researchers checked in intermittently with the families over the next dozen years, assessing both their family situation and the child care provided.
这些儿童都是由研究人员从十所美国医院随机挑选的，并在接下来的十二年当中对这些家庭进行不定期的采访登记，评估他们的家庭情况以及孩子获得的教养情况。
It's one of his social processes for connecting multiple disciplines to create compelling products, and he's been doing it rigorously for a dozen years.
这是他其中一个社会功能，联合多种专业创造惊人的产品，而且他一直这么严格的执行了十多年。
My interest in the psychology of accidents began more than a dozen years ago when I was fortunate enough to gain access to the longitudinal Terman data.
12多年前，当我有幸可以接触到Terman的纵向数据时，我开始对意外事故心理学感兴趣。
Wallace had read it around 1846, but first saw its import for explaining evolution while he lay recovering from fever in Malaysia a dozen years later.
华莱士大约在1846年曾经读到这部著作，但后来他在马来群岛发烧躺下养病的十二年期间，才第一次明白这对于解释进化的重要性。
Generally speaking, prestigious companies that have lasted for a dozen years, even hundreds of years, always have a systematic plan for talents training.
一般来说，知名企业已经生存了数十年的时间，甚至是上百年，他们拥有一个培养人才的系统计划。
In the past dozen years my technique and equipment have stayed simple: a deep breath, a small camera, and transparency film, for its dense blacks and saturation.
过去十几年来，我的技术和装备一直很简单：一次深呼吸，一台小型相机，以及一些为了拍摄海底浓厚的暗度和饱和度准备的透明胶片。
In the past dozen years my technique and equipment have stayed simple: a deep breath, a small camera, and transparency film, for its dense blacks and saturation.
过去十几年来，我的技术和装备一直很简单：一次深呼吸，一台小型相机，以及一些为了拍摄海底浓厚的暗度和饱和度准备的透明胶片。
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