It was nearly half a year later that two workers were sent to my house to fix it.
半年以后才派两位工人来我家里修理。
That's nearly two and a half times around Earth! For the first time, Coca Cola has shown that it uses 3,000,000 tons of plastic bottles each year.
这差不多是地球的2.5倍！这是第一次可口可乐公司表示它每年使用300万吨塑料瓶。
In little more than a decade, Argentina has become the world's leading exporter of honey, with nearly 90,000 tons a year sold to foreign markets, almost half of which is going to the United States.
在10年多的时间里，阿根廷已经成为世界上最大的蜂蜜出口国，每年有近9万吨蜂蜜销往国外市场，其中近一半销往美国。
The International Energy Association reported last year that nearly one and a half billion people in the world had no electricity to use, and most of them live in sub---Saharan Africa and in India and other countries in Asia.
国际能源协会去年报告说，世界上有近15亿人没有电可用，其中大多数人生活在撒哈拉以南非洲、印度和亚洲其他国家。
In America sales of cars and light trucks in December fell by 33.5% compared with a year ago, and in Spain they crashed by nearly half.
在美国，12月的轿车以及轻型卡车的销量与上一年同期相比下降了百分之33.5%。同一项数据在西班牙下降了将近一半。
Passenger numbers have nearly doubled since 2004, to half a billion a year.
自2004年来，乘客数量几乎翻了一倍，达到一年5亿人。
Nokia, the world’s biggest handset-maker, sells nearly half a billion mobile phones a year, roughly two in every five.
全世界最大的手机生产商诺基亚去年手机销量达到将近5亿部，几乎每五部手机中就有两部是它们生产的。
Yet after nearly a year and a half, advanced smart phones are still in the “early adopter” phase in China, with some 93% of current subscribers still uncommitted to an operating system.
然后在一年或者半年后，高级的智能手机操作系统仍然处于早期阶段，当前的93%的用户将不会用到这些国外的操作系统。
Isabel Chivers and Reggie were engaged for two years: Grace and Thorley for nearly a year and a half.
伊莎贝尔·奇弗斯和里吉的订婚期是两年，格雷斯和索利差不多有一年半。
Nearly half of those in blind-obedience companies said they had observed unethical behaviour in the previous year, compared with around a quarter in the other sorts of firm.
在盲目服从型企业中，几乎有过半数员工都称在前几年目睹过有违职业道德的行为，而在其他类型的企业中只有四分之一的员工有此经历。
Nearly half the nation's 14 to 18 year olds used a library computer last year, and one quarter did so once a week or more.
去年，这个国家几近一半的14至18岁的国民使用过图书馆的计算机，而且有四分之一的人一周至少使用一次或更多。
The defense secretary hinted late last week that he saw a possible end in sight to the nearly 10-year-old war, thanks to security gains in the past year and a half.
上星期晚些时候盖茨暗示说，他看到将近10年之久的阿富汗战争可能结束，这要归功于过去一年半来在安全方面取得的成果。
Nearly three-quarters of five-year-old girls (74%) could write a simple shopping list, or a letter to Father Christmas, but only half of boys (54%) could do so at the same age.
有将近四分之三的5岁女孩(74%)能写出简单的购物清单，或者是给圣诞老人的一封信，但只有一半的同岁男孩(54%)可以做到。
Oil prices have more than doubled from the low point they hit in the spring, but are still around half the all-time high of nearly $150 a barrel they reached in early summer last year.
比起今春的价格低谷，油价如今已涨了一倍多，但这仍只是去年初夏创纪录的每桶近150美元价格的一半左右。
Nearly half a century after he released his first album Bob Dylan continues to release new albums (including last year a compilation of Christmas songs) and tour the country playing concerts.
约五十年前，鲍勃·迪伦发表了自己的第一张专辑，如今，他仍有新作不断问世（包括去年发行的一张圣诞歌曲合辑），此外还在进行全国巡演。
Nearly half a century after he released his first album, Bob Dylan continues to release new albums (including, last year, a compilation of Christmas songs) and tour the country playing concerts.
约五十年前，鲍勃·迪伦发表了自己的第一张专辑，如今，他仍有新作不断问世（包括去年发行的一张圣诞歌曲合辑），此外还在进行全国巡演。
Arena says lorcaserin, which works on the patient's central nervous system to damp appetite, helped nearly half of the patients in a study achieve at least 5% weight loss after a year.
Arena公司称lorcaserin能够作用于病人的中枢神经系统从而抑制胃口，而且已经帮助受试者中的半数在一年中将体重至少降低了5%。
Of the 135, 000 completed but unsold new homes at the end of May, nearly half had been sitting for a year or more.
在五月底，除了未售出的新房，有135000套已经完成销售，将近一半已经放置了一年或一年以上。
The report shows that nearly five and a half million people die every year from tobacco-related illnesses.
世界卫生组织的报告显示，每年有将近550万人死于和烟草有关的疾病。
It fuels its municipal cars, buses and trucks with biogas fuel, avoiding the need to purchase nearly half a million gallons of diesel or gas each year.
现在该市的市政轿车、公共汽车、卡车均利用沼气作为燃料，不必每年购买大约50万加仑的柴油或汽油。
In a study of 2, 032 representative 8 - to 18-year-olds, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that nearly half used the Internet on a typical day in 2004, up from just under a quarter in 1999.
通过对2032名具有代表性的8到18岁孩子的研究，凯塞家庭基金会(Kaiser Family Foundation)发现，2004年大约有近一半的人平时都会上网，而在1999年平时上网的人不到四分之一。
Nearly half of nine to 12-year-olds in the UK have a profile on a social networking site, according to a poll by the European Commission (EC).
根据欧洲委员会（EC）的调查显示，英国几乎一半的9至12岁的儿童在社交网络站点上都有网络身份。
Altogether, the company employs about a million people, nearly half of whom work at the 20-year-old Shenzhen plant.
公司员工总数在100万人左右，其中深圳分厂就占了一半。
But this will not prevent it being another terrible year for ordinary Afghans, nearly 1,300 of whom were killed in the first half of 2010-a 31% increase on the same period in the previous year.
但是对于阿富汗民众来说这又会是个灾难之年，约1300人在2010年上半年丧生——比前一年同期多了31%。
A recent survey shows that just over half of South Korean teenagers have had suicidal thoughts this year, while nearly one in three said they had felt very depressed.
最近的一项调查显示，略高于半数的韩国青少年今年有过自杀念头，同时近三分之一的青少年表示感到非常抑郁。
For the past year and a half, Taiwan's export-oriented economy managed to surpass nearly all expectations, most recently marking 6.2 per cent growth in the first quarter of this year.
在过去的一年半时间里，台湾的出口导向型经济成功地超越了几乎所有预期，最近的数据是今年一季度增长6.2%。
Nearly half of all 18-24 year-olds admitted to text ing as they drove, a separate survey by the RAC Foundation discovered.
“英国皇家飞行俱乐部基金会”开展的另一项调查显示，在18岁至24岁的受访者中，近一半的人承认自己在开车时发过短信。
Nearly half of all 18-24 year-olds admitted to text ing as they drove, a separate survey by the RAC Foundation discovered.
“英国皇家飞行俱乐部基金会”开展的另一项调查显示，在18岁至24岁的受访者中，近一半的人承认自己在开车时发过短信。
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