There weren't anywhere near enough empty boxes.

根本没有足够的空盒子。

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There was a pile of empty boxes in the bedroom "the very boxes these books had come out of?"

卧室里有一堆空箱子，这些书就是从那些箱子里取出来的？

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Mr Brown stopped his car in front of the shop to pick up the empty boxes.

布朗先生在店门前停下车，顺便把空箱子带走。

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We dropped by the outfit's booth to take a peek, finding seemingly empty boxes in lieu of product.

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More than two thirds of stakeholder pension schemes remain "empty boxes" without a single contribution or scheme member.

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The paintings were for Kozlowski's Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan, but he shipped the art (or empty boxes) to Exeter, N.

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