The grain was still sown, cut and threshed as it was a hundred years ago.

谷物的播种、收割、脱粒方法还和一百年前一样。

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The cost is about half as much again as it was two years ago.

现在的价格比两年前提高约一半。

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A few years ago it was virtually impossible to find superior quality coffee in local shops.

几年前在当地的商店里几乎不可能买到上好的咖啡。

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It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

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I think that many years ago, in the early 90s or 80s, or the 70s even, it was a very dangerous city.

我想很多年以前的八九十年代或者甚至七十年代，它是一个非常危险的城市。

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Now, mind you, it was 20 years ago that this program was operational, 20 years.

现在，提醒你们，这是20年前,运行的一个程序，20年了。

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Today the vast majority of retail point of sale equipment is the same as it was years ago.

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In the countries where it is working well, the exchange framework is similar to what it was years ago.

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It was 60 years ago, and it was almost impossible for later generations - despite everything that was in the film Saving Private Ryan - to even imagine what bravery it took to land on D-Day and fight the ferocious Normandy campaign.

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