We're not very close friends although we've known each other for a long time.

虽然我们认识很长时间了，但我们不是很亲密的朋友。

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He winced, hesitated, then finally said: "Yahoo is a company I've been close to for a long time and feel a lot of affection and loyalty towards."

他停下来，犹豫了一会儿，然后说：“我与雅虎接触了很长时间，对它有感情也很忠诚。”

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Clinical trials take a long time because they're rigorously controlled, with close attention paid to sampling bias and methodology.

临床试验需要花费很长时间，因为它们处于严格控制之下，必须密切留意取样偏差与方法。

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The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

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But for a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me.

然而很长一段时间里,一想起母亲过来揍我,我就会很听话，“

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Safdar Abbassi,a senator and long time PPP member who had close ties to Benazir Bhutto, told VOA that Mr.Zardari's recent actions to crack down on anti-government protests have provoked dissension within the party.

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It's long past the time to close the gender gap in our nation's leadership and in the media and telecom industries' leadership especially, where in 2011 only 28.4% of TV news directors were women, according to the Women's Media Center's 2012 Status of Women in the U.S. Media report.

CNN: Obama, put a woman in charge of FCC

It carries a host of satellite and laser-guided bombs and is able to remain over targets for long periods of time to assist in close-air support for troops on the ground.

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It's terrible and it's something that will live with us for a long, long time to know we were so close - touching distance to the trophy - but so far away when Notts got that third wicket.

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