New York is used as the base city and all cities are compared against New York.

纽约被设为基准城市，所有的城市都与纽约作比较。

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The cost of living for expatriates in the Russian capital is nearly 35 percent higher than in New York, which served as the base city for the survey released Monday.

该份报告于星期一发表，其中将纽约作为比较的基准城市。对于居住在俄罗斯首都的外国人来说，他们的生活费比纽约还要高35个百分点。

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Officials from the team from the United Arab Emirates have been emphatic in voicing their concerns in particular about the facilities in their base city,Kano.

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Douglas was born on an Army base near the southern city of Little Rock, Arkansas in January,eighteen eighty.

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On May,22 they even launched a ground attack on Kandahar air field, NATO's sprawling military base outside the city.

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