They were almost useless to me in the past time.

过去，它们对我来说几乎是没有用处的。

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In the past three years, I have had a great time in Red Star International School.

在过去的三年里，我在红星国际学校度过了一段美好的时光。

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In the past few months, I've been traveling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

在过去的几个月里，我旅行了好几个星期，只带了一行李箱的衣服。

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The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

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So this is perhaps a site that some of you have spent way too much time on last year, if not in the past week or so, com this is isawyouharvard.com.

很多同学去年的时候,在这个网站上花费了很多时间，可能上周还玩了，这个网站的网址是isawyouharvard。

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In the past, this expression was used as an argument to re-elect a president, especially during a time when the country was at war.

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The phaseout won't be completed until 2006 or so, but for the second time in the past decade the once-famous marque will disappear, possibly this time forever.

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The Wildcats have the most wins in school history and have reached the regional semifinals for the third time in the past four seasons.

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So, somewhere along the line between now and November, I've got to make a decision about what is more important for me to make a decision based on the stances that I advocate in the past or for the first time in my life I'm going to contradict myself and just throw everything out the one that I advocated and believed in.

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