In the past 15 years, the private sector has provided access to water to 25 million people or more.

过去15年来，私营部门向2千500多万人口供水。

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In the past 15 years China's imports of commodities have risen more than tenfold (see right-hand chart, above).

在过去的15年里，中国对农产品和矿产品的进口已经番了10番(如右上图表)。

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In Shonai, farmland prices have dropped as much as 70 percent in the past 15 years, and the number of farmers has shrunk by half since 1990.

在庄内町（Shonai），耕地价格在过去十五年中下跌百分之七十，另外耕种者数量自1990年以来也缩水一半。

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Police did go to the house twice in the past 15 years, officials said.

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But if officialdom has inched forward in the past 15 years, public opinion has taken giant strides.

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Sunni-Shia sectarian violence has killed as many as 4, 000 people in the past 15 years in Pakistan.

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