美国政府称今年的玉米产量应该比去年增长约8﹪。

The U.S. government says that this year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year.

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去年的房屋销售曾一度比前一年增长了50%以上，但今年初却出现了疲软，现在甚至在大幅下跌。

Housing sales, which at one point last year were rising by more than 50% from a year earlier, softened early this year, and are now plunging.

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今年新入学的外国研究生人数同样增长了3%，比之去年的4%和2006年12%的增长有所减少。

The number of new international graduate students rose 3 percent as well, less than the 4 percent growth last year, or the 12 percent in 2006.

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