He had closed his account with the bank five years earlier.

他早在5年前就已经跟银行结清了户头。

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At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.

Arts Economics 研究公司的创始人克莱尔·麦克安德鲁估算，在2007年的巅峰期，它的价值约为650亿美元，是五年前的两倍。

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In 2009 key demographic group ratings for network 10 P.M.shows were just half of what they had been five years earlier.

2009年晚间10点档节目的电视网络收视率只有五年前的一半。

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Five years earlier, another oceanographer learned of the trash after a shipment of rubber duckies got lost at sea.

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A group of more than one hundred Englishmen had arrived two years earlier, in fifteen eighty-five.

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The size of the digital universe this year will be tenfold what it was just five years earlier.

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By February 2012, there were one billion mobile phones in China, up from 500 million five years earlier.

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Five years earlier IBM had been the planet's heavyweight champ of market cap.

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