We give people a few months to write their story and then it takes quite a long time to judge all the entries and to announce the winners.

我们给人们几个月的时间来写他们的故事，然后需要用相当长的时间来评判所有的参赛作品并宣布获胜者。

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It must have taken you a long time to fix up all these bookshelves.

你一定花了很长时间才把所有的这些书架修好。

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For a long time, we assumed that all whales that had teeth including sperm whales and killer whales were closely related to one another.

在很长一段时间里，我们认为所有有牙齿的鲸鱼，包括抹香鲸和虎鲸，彼此都是密切相关的。

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Seems very simple, but took Beethoven a long time to iron all this out and make this perfect melody, the prototypical melody in a way.

似乎很简单,但是花了贝多芬很长时间来琢磨,最后做出这段完美的旋律,这段典范旋律

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The fourth is war, and we got peace movements in American history and anti-war fervor and ferment, of all kinds, for a very long time.

第四点是战争,我们美国历史上的和平运动,酝酿的反战情绪,诸此种种,由来已久了

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It's a good long time till any kind of mental processing occurs at all.

这离精神活动的发生还有好一段时间。

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But in a fast-changing industry, this is all taking a long time to put in place.

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From permits for environmental to water to mitigating the impact on some to be extinct insect, it all takes a long time.

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In almost all cases, we will either have a long lead time or none at all.

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