Four years passed, and on a dismal spring afternoon I was running errands and found myself feeling depressed.

四年过去了，这年春天的一个下午，天气阴沉郁闷，我外出办事感到心情压抑。

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Four years passed and on a dismal spring afternoon I was running errands and found myself feeling depressed.

四年过去了，这年春天的一个下午，天气阴沉郁闷，我外出办事感到心情压抑。

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Four long years passed.

漫长的四年过去了。

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All the men were tested for sexually passed diseases four times in the next two years.

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Four years later it passed the Senate as part of the far more expansive Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, but died in conference.

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After the Wall Street crash of 1929, it took four years before Congress passed the Glass-Steagall act, which split commercial banking from securities dealing. (Before the legislation bank deposits were frequently diverted in support of new issues by commercial bankers' investment-banking colleagues.) Other restrictive rules continued to be made until 1940.

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