我安排了这次会面，因为自从我们上次联系有一段时间了。

I scheduled this appointment because it has been a while since we touched base.

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有一段时间，美国的力量曾遭到苏联的制衡，但自从冷战结束之后，美国已经成为单极世界的唯一超级大国。

For a while, U.S. power was checked by the Soviet Union, but since the end of the Cold War, America has been the sole superpower.

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自从我们提供给客户软件的架构文档，已经有一段时间了，客户渴望看到一些进展。

The customer was eager to see some progress, as it had been a while since we'd given them the software architecture document.

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