However, toy manufacturers and their contemporaries in advertising make a killing during this period.

玩具制造商及其广告业的同伙们，在这个期间大大地赚了一笔。

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A kind of bronze crossbow with casing was invented during the Warring States period, thus adding greater power to this weapon for killing.

战国时期出现的带廓青铜弩机，使弩成为一种更强有力的杀伤武器。

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Britain spent most of the final period killing penalties and were put under huge pressure by the hosts.

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Jurors have also heard that in the period before the killing, he told Mrs Esack she was a "dead woman walking" and added "tick tock, tick tock".

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Nor does it bring us any closer to deciding who will pay for Europe's sovereign debts, or how to shepherd its banking system through a necessary period of shrinkage without killing the supply of credit to the economy.

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