I am teaching a course on the literature of the Renaissance in the first half of the year.

我在上半年教一门关于文艺复兴时期文学的课程。

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For the first half of the year, their parents offer them food.

在上半年，它们的父母给它们提供食物。

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This will negatively affect the result over the first half of the year.

这将会给前半年的结果带来负面影响。

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"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

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I've got two, I've got a year and a half left to sort of figure out exactly what I want to do.

我有两年，一年半的时间去思考我究竟想要怎么做。

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Most of the forty-five business economists questioned said they expect the recession to end in the second half of the year.

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U.S. GDP growth will remain tepid in the first half of the year, before picking up to a near 3% rate during the second half of the year.

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Some projects approved by the NDRC, construction of which was scheduled to start in the second half of this year, have been brought forward to the first half of this year, he said.

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Ms. WEBSTER: Well, if you consider during the first half of the year, sales were their lowest level in 15 years. and in the second half of this year we're expecting them to be even lower.

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