Over three hundred people have died of starvation since the beginning of the year.

自那年年初开始，已有三百多人饿死了。

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Prices have climbed by 21% since the beginning of the year.

今年年初以来价格已经上涨了21%。

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Health officials hope to begin dispensing anti-retroviral drugs on a wide scale at the beginning of next year.

卫生官员们希望在明年年初开始大规模配发抗逆转录病毒药物。

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The fifty year old international star was just days from beginning a series of performances in London.

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That's when a new manager appears subsequent to the beginning of the ten-year period; they'll put not only the new numbers in, but they'll take the history of the new manager and put that history into the database.

即在10年期开始后,每出现一位新的基金经理,不仅是新的业绩数字会进入数据库,新经理的历史记录,也会填入数据库

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I think it's either at the end of my first year of law school or at the very beginning of my second year.

我想应该是在我读法学院的第一年末或是第二年初。

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Developers cited price of the end product as the single most important criteria for an Android tablet to compete with Apple, and that view was similarly reported at the beginning of year.

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While fireworks are a major part of the festivities surrounding the Lunar New Year, which marks the beginning of the Year of the Snake, authorities in Beijing are asking the public to curb firework celebrations so as not to add to the city's worsening air pollution, Xinhua reported Tuesday.

NPR: Leaner New Year: China Tones Down The Celebrations

Construction of the towers, which will be Europe's tallest buildings when completed eclipsing three skyscrapers in Moscow and the Shard in London will start at the end of this year or beginning of next year.

WSJ: Europe's Tallest Towers Set to Rise