He had buried his wife some two years before he retired.
他大约在退休前两年丧妻。
It was many years before the full story was made public.
许多年之后，事情的全貌才公之于众。
I was on dialysis for seven years before my first transplant.
在第一次肾移植手术前，我已做了七年的透析。
He still remembered her as the lively teenager he'd known years before.
他记忆中的她依然是他多年以前认识的那个活泼的少女。
It will be many years before anyone can predict a hurricane's behaviour with much accuracy.
要高精确度地预测飓风的表现尚需要许多年。
She deliberated over the decision for a good few years before she finally made up her mind.
在她最终下定决心之前，她仔细考虑了这个决定多年。
He was born six years after the century began, and died ten years before it ended.
他于本世纪开始的六年后出生，又在距离本世纪结束的十年前去世。
Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.
化学测试显示，在她去世前的两年里，她大约每两个月搬家一次。
There is a record of a beetle larva living in dead wood for over 40 years before becoming an adult.
有记录显示，一只甲虫幼虫成年前在枯木中生活了40多年。
Yet two years before Dickens's birth, his mother's father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return.
然而就在狄更斯出生前两年，他的外祖父因偷窃被抓并且逃到了欧洲，再也没有回来。
It was several years before someone came up with the idea of removing the bottom of the basket and letting the ball fall through.
过了好几年，才有人想到要去掉篮筐底部，让球掉下去。
British researchers claim that a routine eye test carried out by your optician could detect Alzheimer's up to 20 years before any symptoms show.
英国研究人员声称，验光师做的常规眼部检查能提前20年，在任何症状出现前检测出老年痴呆症。
Musicologists therefore hypothesize that the diatonic musical scale was developed and used thousands of years before it was adopted by Western musicians.
音乐学家因此推测，在被西方音乐家采用之前，全音阶已经发展和使用了数千年。
It may be many years before the situation improves.
这种状况或许要过很多年才能得到改善。
He taught for several years before becoming a writer.
他教了几年书之后成为作家。
He had been cheating the taxman but it was years before he was found out.
他过去一直在欺骗税务部门，只是多年以后才被查出来。
She ran this shop for ten years before deciding to move on to fresh challenges.
她经营这家商店10年之后，决定罢手去迎接新的挑战。
He had been stealing money from the company for years before they got on to him.
他一直窃取公司的钱，多年后他们才发觉。
When they had married, six years before, the difference in their ages had seemed unimportant.
他们6年前结婚时，年龄上的差别似乎并不重要。
Ants were farmers fifty million years before humans were.
蚂蚁比人类早五千万年成为农民。
Zhang had to stay with them for about 10 years before he got away.
在逃跑之前，张骞不得不和他们共处约10年之久。
It took 10 years before my grandma could make paper art skillfully.
我奶奶花了10年时间才得以熟练地制作纸艺术。
Chen Dong has been a pilot for many years before joining the space team.
陈冬在加入太空团队之前已经是一名多年的飞行员。
It was only 10 years before he died that he decided to become an artist.
就在他去世十年前，他决定成为一名艺术家。
I wrote my poems in this manner for nearly ten years before my first book was published.
在我的第一本书出版之前，我用这种方式写诗写了将近十年。
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