Since 1978, the amount of money available to buy books has fallen by 17%.

自1978年以来，可供买书的钱已减少了17%。

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The amount of food available is striking, I mean in the period of time I was--since I was a child there are a lot of changes that have occurred, and I mentioned some of this in the last class-- but when I was a child you didn't have rows and rows of food at a drugstore.

现有粮食的数量是惊人的,当我还是小孩的时候,身边就发生了很多变化,我上节课曾提到过一些,在我小的时候,药店里还没有满货架的食品

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