Sure! Eight years have passed!

看准了！ 已经八年了！

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It now hopes to have standards in place by the end of this year, which would be two-and-a-half years since the commission made its report, and fully eight years since PREA passed.

这个标准今年年底有望推出，这离委员会发布报告已有2年半的时间，离该法案的通过已过去8年。

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Thirty-eight years have passed, but, in certain ways, little has changed.

NEWYORKER: Primary Colors

Eight years have passed since the Gulf war and some Gulf Arabs, arguing that they now face no obvious, immediate threat, ask why their governments need to keep spending so much money on defence.

ECONOMIST: The Gulf