The developments in this town represent in microcosm what is happening in the country as a whole.

这座城镇的发展以小见大，体现了整个国家的发展。

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The festival will be great for our city and for the country as a whole.

这次会演对我们城市乃至整个国家都将是意义重大的。

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The rich benefited from the reforms, not the country as a whole.

富人而不是全体国民得益于这些改革。

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The city's population grew between two thousand and two thousand seven, but not as fast as the country as a whole.

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"The instability of this country negatively affects the whole of Africa as well as its wider region.

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Dr.Sullivan says there will be a chronic shortage of doctors in the country as a whole, as more medical schools transform from training and education, into medical research.

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Even as communities of the Eastern seaboard recover from the hurricane, the country as a whole continues to face the challenge of economic recovery.

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Businessmen, once staunch supporters, are divided, as is the country as a whole.

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But as the conflict continues, that debate is more and more in the background because now people perceive the war as an assault on the whole country rather than just on Hezbollah.

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