Very few would have thought a year ago that things would be as good as they are in Iraq despite the challenges that remain before us now.

很少有人能在一年前就知道伊拉克会取得目前的良好局势，尽管我们面前还存在很多挑战。

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On the other hand, the British did get out of India without fighting, an event which very few observers indeed would have predicted until about a year before it happened.

在另一方面，英国人确实未经战斗就退出了印度，只有为数极少的几个观察员在此事的大约一年前实际能预测到。

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Her interest was piqued when she toured her local elementary school last year, a few months before Benjamin was to enroll in kindergarten.

去年，在本杰明就要入读幼儿园的几个月前，在她参观了当地的几所之后大失所望。

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Once a year, a few days before that year's messages are set to go out, the application running on Codefix servers will send a message to Yahoo!

FORBES: E-Mail Time Capsule

They acknowledge that some clients, who typically spend anything from a few months to a year before finding a soulmate or throwing in the towel, have frustrating experiences on their sites.

ECONOMIST: Online dating

He won the party's nomination for the chancellorship only a few months before last year's general election, much too late to be able to impose his will single-mindedly, either in the selection of policies or of top people.

ECONOMIST: Schr?der��s struggle