For eight years, the scientists asked the same group to come back to the lab every 18 months to take the same sorts of tests.

在八年的时间里，科学家们要求同一组人每18个月回到实验室进行同样的测试。

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At the age of eight, he joined a group of child dancers.

八岁的时候，他加入了一个儿童舞蹈团。

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Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics were a group of artists who created their own style.

扬州八怪是一群自创风格的艺术家。

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But Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the only leader from a major industrial nation in the Group of Eight.

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He looked at a group of hedge funds that numbered 331 in 1996 and by 2004,eight years later, 75% of them had disappeared.

他取样了一组对冲基金,是1996年的331支,到8年后的2004年,其中的75%都消失了

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The promise came Friday on the third and final day of the Group of Eight summit meeting in L'Aquila,Italy.

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The eight group winners plus the runners-up go through to the knockout stages of the competition, while the teams finishing third go into the Europa League.

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Liverpool pipped Atletico Madrid for top spot in the group after the Spaniards were held to a goalless draw with Marseille, and have now gone eight group matches unbeaten.

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They are now set to move into a tough Super Eight group including South Africa, India and Australia - if Ricky Ponting's side manage to qualify - but have at least escaped the ignominy of an early exit.

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