Good news at last, it seems, and not before time.

最后，这貌似是个好消息，但在不恰当的时机却非也。

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After a string of ageing Kings, they may well-not before time-choose one of their own.

在经历了一连串的老国王之后，他们很可能老早之前就选好了第三代当中的一个。

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Good news at last, it seems, and not before time: sterling is beginning to lose a bit of its competitive edge against the euro as Europe's troubles pile up.

最后，这貌似是个好消息，但在不恰当的时机却非也。英镑开始对欧元失去了些许的竞争优势，因为欧洲的麻烦也应接不暇了。

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It's not the first time CSPI has threatened legal action against junk food makers -- and the strategy has worked before.

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It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

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Some critics have questioned why the president is traveling at a time when so many pressing matters are before him not just Afghanistan, but also the U.S.economy and his ongoing campaign for health-care reform.

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The UN has recently, and not before time, decided that population control should be one of its much-vaunted Millennium Development Goals.

ECONOMIST: Population control

Such views are also winning favour in Tokyo, and not before time, given the heedless expenditure of capital that has driven down returns, sometimes to negative rates.

ECONOMIST: Springing the pay-as-you-go trap

Not before time, indeed, as the fisheries grow less abundant.

ECONOMIST: David Oddsson, Iceland��s Eurosceptic leader