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The electric company, whose monopoly may be short lived, has suddenly mopped requiring users to wait half a day for a repairman.

这家电力公司的垄断地位可能是短暂的，但突然之间，它要用户等半天才能找到修理工。

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Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

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So the first half of the book of Joshua contains a streamlined, idealized account according to which the Israelites managed in a relatively short period to take the central hill country, confining the Philistines to a little strip here on the coastal plain. We will come to the Philistines in a minute.

因此《约书亚书》第一部分包含了,一种流线行，理想化的叙述，据此,以色列人在相对较短的时期内设法,攫取中央山地，将腓利士人，逼至狭窄条形地带,逼至海岸平原，我们待会儿将要说到腓利士人。

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What happened in the three and a half short years between October 2007 and April 2011?

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Because of the short half life of radioactive iodine (8 days), in a month or so the water should be fine again.

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It has a very short half-life, which in practical terms means that it goes in and out of the body very quickly.

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