She deliberated over the decision for a good few years before she finally made up her mind.

在她最终下定决心之前，她仔细考虑了这个决定多年。

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

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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.

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And we saw it all before just a few years ago in Bosnia for four long years until NATO acted, combining with the resistance of Bosnians and Croatians to bring the Dayton peace agreement and to turn the tide of ethnic cleansing there.

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The 80-year-old is the founder member of the Postcard Club of Great Britain, amassing a collection of 95, 000 over 50 years before she sold most of it off a few years ago.

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Before becoming president, he acted as chief operating officer and spent a few years before that overseeing the company's digital strategy.

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