In the past, New Story built its houses in a normal way, but it took a long time.

过去，New Story用常规的方式来建造房屋，但这要花很长时间。

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Sargent's work showed how the public and banks adjusted to the change through a gradual learning process, explaining why it took a long time for inflation to come down.

萨金特的研究表明了公众和银行如何通过逐渐的学习过程来适应政策变化，解释了为什么通货膨胀需要经过长时间才能平息下来。

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I was brought up in Paris so it took a long time to get used to living in London.

我在巴黎长大，所以需要很长时间来熟悉伦敦的生活。

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In the old days, it took a long time to count the votes from the November elections.

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So it took a long time for the twenty books that we have to get settled on. And we'll talk about how that actually happened,also,still.

所以很长一段时间之后那27本书,才最终被确定下来，我们会谈及,那是如何实现的。

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So what I'm saying now is it took a long time for this to solidify. And one of the things we think made it solidify was the development of codices,a codex.

所以这花了很长一段时间,才得以统一，我们觉得,使它统一的是抄本的出现。

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And it took a long time for that to be told to the American people.

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The first is, it took a long time for this meeting to come to fruition.

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It took a long time, some four years, but the board finally let the CEO go.

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