Excavator sales fell 10 percent in May from a year earlier, possibly foreshadowing a construction bust.

五月份挖掘机销售量同比下降10%，可能预示着建筑行业的不景气。

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The construction last year of a shopping mall in downtown Oak City was a mistake.

去年在奥克城中心建造一个购物中心是个错误的决定。

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With the advent of the five-year-plans, millions of women also began to toil in factories and in heavy construction, building dams, roads and steel mills in summer heat and winter frost.

随着“五年计划”的到来，数以百万计的妇女也开始在工厂和大型建筑工地、大坝、道路和钢铁厂中苦干，经受着夏天的酷热和冬天的严寒。

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There is existing permission for the construction of up to 40,000 housing units, according to Peace Now, and construction on 600 began this year.

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Economists say much of China's growth in the past year was the result of stimulus efforts, including rapid lending growth that funded new housing and factory construction.

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President Clinton may attempt to have it both ways: decide this year in favour of deploying a national missile defence, but declare that construction next year does not violate the treaty.

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It had hoped to start construction next year.

BBC: Hatfield carbon capture scheme fails in UK funding bid

Its new facility in San Antonio, scheduled to start construction this year and be up and running by early 2012, will grab 83, 000 tons of carbon dioxide a year from the equivalent of a 10-megawatt plant.

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