In order to reduce the amount of residue ash Shelbyville generates this year to half of last year's total, the city has revamped its collection program.

为了将谢尔比维尔今年产生的灰渣数量减少到去年总量的一半，该市已经修改了其收集计划。

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For all their troubles, the United States' 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.

去年，来自193个国家的50多万名学生涌入了美国3500所大学，造成了很大的麻烦。

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Last year, however, one candidate produced a half-hour-long advertisement.

然而，去年，一位候选人制作了一个半小时的广告。

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The Census Bureau says more than forty-six million Americans, about fifteen and a half percent, did not have health insurance last year.

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About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

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Armstrong finished third last Sunday after a three-and-a-half year retirement.

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Counting the pending Los Angeles state court action Koch filed against a California wine collector late last year (see September 2009 report from Wine Spectator), that makes two counterfeit-wine suits Koch has filed in the last half-year.

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But while the good times are back--the tech-heavy Nasdaq hit a six-and-a-half-year high last week--tech trade and new-economy publications have not bounced back.

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Wage and salary growth has slowed from about 4.5% before inflation year-over-year during the height of QE2 during first half of last year to a meager 3.2% nominal growth year over year since the start of this year.

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