Regionally, the Rocky Mountain states reported the most rapid growth rate - 37.1 percent since 1970 in a vast area with only 5 percent of the US population.

从区域上看，洛基山脉各州上报了自1970年以来最高的人口增长率——37.1%，而以前这片广阔的土地上的人口仅占美国总人口的5%。

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But the leaders in broadband usage include Canada, where a tiny population is spread over a vast area.

但是宽带使用的领军者中包括加拿大，那儿很少的人口分布在一个广大的地区。

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This might very well be the scene at book fairs of the future, where the venue is no longer packed with rows of book shelves, but with e-book display screens in a vast open area.

这种情景很有可能出现在未来的书展上，举办场所不再摆满了一排排的书架，而是在一个巨大的露天场地里摆上电子书的展示屏幕。

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The touchstone of that business model remains the monthly subscriber fee, one typically levied on every cable household in a vast metro area irrespective of interest in sports programming.

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Instead, the EU will begin to evolve into what it should have been in the first place: a vast free-trade area in which political control is exercised by individual members, with EU bureaucrats in Brussels concerned only with reducing internal trade barriers.

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This is the third time the race has taken place in the Complexo do Alemao, a vast area of interconnected slums once ruled by some of the most powerful drug gangs in Brazil.

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