In the last decades, advances in medical technology have made it possible for people to live longer than in the past.

在过去的几十年，先进的医疗技术已经使得人们比过去寿命更长成为可能。

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Semiconductor nanoparticles, which own large nonlinear refractive index and fast response speed, have been extensively studied in the last decades.

半导体纳米微粒因其非线性折射率高、响应时间快而在过去的十年里倍受关注。

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The study found that strong teachers in the fourth through eighth grades raised the skills of their students in ways that would last for decades.

研究发现，四到八年级的优秀教师以一种可以持续数十年的方式提高了学生们的技能。

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Last year,several scientists had expressed doubt about the possibility of the large Himalayan glaciers melting in a few decades.

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I think it's the most important revolution in finance of the last couple decades.

我认为行为金融学是近几十年中,金融学所发生的最重要的革命

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We've gotten, over the last two decades in particular, very sophisticated about taking pictures inside the body allowing doctors to look inside the body and predict things about our internal physiology that they couldn't predict just by looking at us or putting their hands on us.

特别是在近二十年当中,我们对体内造影已经十分熟悉,它使医生能够看到身体内部,并预测我们体内的生理变化,而仅仅是通过,视诊或者触诊是不能预测这些变化的

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In this sense alone, modern America confronts a crisis of major proportions in the last decades of the twentieth century.

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In the last decades, competition for water has increased sharply as demands to satisfy the various needs of a growing population have swollen, while the resource appears to be scarcer in many areas.

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It culminated in the last decades of his life in a forward-thinking creation he called the Global Jukebox Project, an early computer database that organized and compared various forms based on geography, style, and subsistence patterns.

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