They would have had time to cause additional distortions and make the collapse even more disastrous.

他们本可以有时间制造更多背离正轨的问题，最终使其崩溃的灾难性更大。

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To be fair, newspaper journalists have far too little time to do far too much, particularly with the steady collapse of print circulations.

说句公道话，报社的记者拥有的时间太少，需要做的又太多，尤其是当他们面对稳定下降的发行量的时候。

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With sceptics far outnumbering optimists at the time, it was destined to disintegrate and collapse, but the reality was very different.

当时怀疑论者远要大于乐观派，认为这是注定要失败和崩溃的，但事实情况却恰恰相反。

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And as I started to get more interested in the history of Southeast Asia, I realized that that was the time of the collapse of Angkor."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

The counterterrorism operation in Chechnya was instituted in 1999, when Russia sent troops for the second time since the collapse of the Soviet Union to put down a local separatist movement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

We got to the window just in time to see the fence collapse.

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Among the first to leave was Robert Breitner, who arrived in Berlin in time to see the Wall collapse.

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How else to explain how he could slap his name on the technology-heavy AIM Dent Demographic Trends fund in June 1999, just in time to get clobbered by the tech collapse?

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