Today more than 4, 000 different minerals can be found on Earth. When the planet began to be formed, however, few existed.

地球上目前已发现的矿物超过4000种，然而地球形成之初的矿物种类却寥寥无几。

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Today more than 4,000 different minerals can be found on Earth. When the planet began to be formed, however, few existed.

地球上目前已发现的矿物超过4000种，然而地球形成之初的矿物种类却寥寥无几。

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It might surprise you to learn that restaurants, as we know them, have only existed for a few centuries.

当你得知我们所知道的餐馆只存在了几个世纪，你可能会感到惊讶。

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And it was difficult. Mainly that was because few good roads for driving existed.

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Because few books or drawings existed at the time, apprentices would learn the trade by watching Masters and imitating them as closely as possible.

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Now that the mutual fund scandals are ancient history and the SEC (speaking on behalf of the mutual fund industry) assures us that the few problems that ever existed in the industry have been eliminated (none of which the SEC uncovered on its own), attention has shifted to abuses involving retirement plans that generally use mutual funds- the defined contribution plans.

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Pampers now ranks No. 1 in a product category that barely existed just a few years ago.

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