If I could wait, it would flower a few years before.

如果我能等，它早几年就会开花。

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Bernard Bailyn argues, however, that the "Americans" who encroached on Native American land during the Revolution had been British only a few years before.

然而，伯纳德·贝林认为，在大革命期间侵占美洲原住民土地的“美国人”几年前还是英国人。

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A few years before that, it might get you burned at the stake.

几年前，电可能让你毁于一旦。

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It was the same town where abolitionist John Brown had tried to start a slave rebellion a few years before.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

In fact, I dug up this from a few years ago it was actually pretty fortuitous like the day before one of CS50s lectures the original iPhone was cracked.

实际上，我在几年前,发现了这个，这是相当意外的,就像在一个CS50演讲前一天,我的iPhone，坏掉了。

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She was named after her father's only brother, who died a few years before she was born.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It will probably be a few years before you can have one of these at home.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

The place had belonged to Hiram Wright, another legendary professor, who died a few years before.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Gone Tomorrow'

It will be at least a few years before we know whether any of these treatments help.

FORBES: Twilight Zone