In the year to the third quarter its GDP shrank by more than the euro-area average, and it is expected to fall by almost 5% in 2009, as big a drop as in any other big west European country.

今年至第三季度其GDP缩水程度高于欧元区平均衰退值，预计2009年全年GDP下滑5%，降幅超过其他所有西欧大国。

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The fifteenth century saw big progress in printing technology in the west.

15世纪西方印刷术有了很大进步。

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The workers made good progress on the project until they started working near Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia.

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Twenty-nine died on April 5 in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, operated by the Massey Energy Company.

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It was a big turnout this year thanks to a lull in West Bank violence.

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The most likely targets would be teams from the Big Sky, the Big West, and the West Coast Conferences.

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And, when the big West Indian returned to the pavilion just 27 minutes later, he had won the game for Sussex.

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The United States and four big West European countries in the Contact Group that monitors the issue said new sanctions should be imposed on Yugoslavia, the federal state comprising Serbia and Montenegro.

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