By contrast, they saw in the preceding hundred years from 1650 to1750, when England was still a completely agricultural country.

相比之下，在1650年到1750年之前的几百年里，英国还完全是一个农业国家。

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Writing in the last year of his life, he expressed the opinion that in two or three respects his mind had changed during the preceding twenty or thirty years.

他在生命的最后一年，在所写文章中表达了自己这样的想法，他认为在过去的二三十年里，思想在两三个方面发生了变化。

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More than 25% of 50 - to 69-year-olds had taken up running only in the preceding 5 years and participated in a marathon nonetheless.

在50 - 69岁的人群中，超过25%的人在参加马拉松比赛的前5年才开始跑。

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The problem, however, is that in 1982 most interest rates were in double digit, due to tight monetary policy in the preceding years.

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The government will have to decide if these individuals should receive the full flat-rate pension, if they first qualify for it after April 2017, despite the fact that they will not have not been making full national insurance contributions for the state second pension in the preceding years.

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Cambridge University, now in second place, was top of the whole table in the two preceding years.

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