By the early eleventh century, however, the empire had regained almost half of its lost possessions, its new frontiers were secure, and its influence extended far beyond its borders.

然而，到11世纪早期，帝国已收复了几乎一半的失地，新的边境得到了保障，其影响力远远超出了国界。

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I've lost six and a half pounds since I started my diet.

从节食以来，我体重已减轻了六磅半。

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The Dead Sea lost thirty-three percent of its surface area during the last half-century.

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Among the failed investments was an unsecured loan of 700m euros to a shipping company - about half of which was lost - and a loan of half a billion euros to a Greek TV company.

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Testing the cards on an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700-powered machine with 2GB of RAM, the single R600 card bested the solo 8800 GTX in basically every benchmark they tried, with common applications seeing minimal gains, but games saw between ten-percent (Half-Life 2: Lost Coast) and 42-percent (1701 A.D.) hikes.

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