We had been losing ground in average incomes since 1973, and by the 1980s, four in ten workers were experiencing declining incomes.

自1973年以来，我们在人均收入方面渐渐失去了优势，到80年代，十个工人中有四个的收入下降。

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Most people claimed that saying thank you was something drilled into them by their parents, but four in ten will utter a thank you purely out of habit.

大多数人称，说thank you是父母教化的结果，十分之四的人说thank you完全是出于习惯。

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Tyler told me in secret that there's never more than four good proposals at a meeting so your chances of drawing a real proposal and [lot just a blank are about four in ten.

泰勒偷偷告诉我每次好的提议绝不会超过4个，所以你抽到一个好提议的机会的确不算多。

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A Census Bureau official says four hundred billion dollars in grants and loans will be available over the next ten years.

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"There's a yield potential of maybe four thousand kilos, ten times what the average is in West Africa."

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