There had been no direct damage in the fore part of the ship.

没有对船的前部造成直接损坏。

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There were many hot spots in the region, where fighting had been going on.

该地区有很多处于交火状态的热点。

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There had already been approaches from buyers interested in the whole of the group.

已经有一些对整个集团感兴趣的买主来接洽了。

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The Union army there had just been defeated in a battle along a little river called the Chickamauga.

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From 1641 to 1643, there had been an unprecedented explosion of printing and publishing in England.

从1641年到1643年，在英格兰出现了,空前的印刷出版狂潮。

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I had been living in Japan for two years prior to meeting her. I'd been over there,

在认识她之前，我在日本住了两年。那段时间我一直呆在日本，

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But he acknowledged there had been a surge of violence in Basra and there had been a radical change in the type of weapons used.

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True, there had been occasional attacks in other camps, but, for all sorts of reasons, there had been none in ours to date.

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Mr Trivedi said he had been counselled to go for steep increase in fares as there had been no increase in nearly a decade but he chose not to do so "guided by the over-riding concern for the common man".

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