For all that the "licence Raj" was supposedly scrapped two decades ago, it can still take nearly 200 days to get a construction permit and seven years to close a business.

尽管据说是二十年前就废止了“许可证制度”，但至今仍要花上近200天才能拿到施工许可，以及花七年的时间来关闭一家企业。

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The trust admitted it had never been comfortable having a pub so close to a school where vulnerable children live, but said it never intended to close it when buying the business a decade ago.

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