Globally, the average time it takes to register a business has fallen from 50 days to 31 since 2003, and the average cost from 89% of per capita income to 36%.

从全球来看，注册一个企业所需的平均时间已从2003年的50天下将到了31天，而所需费用也从人均年收入的89%下降到了36%。

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A lot of very good and even "average" developers eventually cleaned up the mess, but it cost the company a lot of time and money.

代码编写窍门消失不见，很多开发人员，有非常出色的、也有“平庸”的，最终合力清理干净了那堆破烂代码，但也让公司为此付出了很多时间与金钱。

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The businesses surveyed employed an average eight full-time staff to deal with transaction failures, but the cost of losing customers may be greater.

受访企业平均雇佣8名全职工作人员负责处理交易出错，但客户流失的成本可能会更高。

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She found that parents' time cost is larger, on average, than direct spending, at least until children reach age 12.

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Of course, if your aim is to dollar-cost average your share purchases over a long period of time, this is not a factor.

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George Scangos, the chief executive of Biogen Idec, pointed out that although the process of inventing new drugs has been getting exponentially more expensive for years, the cost of developing the average new drug seems to be flattening out for the first time in decades.

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