Folk belief had a solid mass foundation in the traditional world and constituted a major part of folk culture.

民间信仰在传统时代有着深厚的群众基础，是民间文化的重要内容。

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National Botany, an ancient and mysterious discipline, which is little known by people, is based on deep Chinese culture and broad mass foundation as well.

民族植物学是一个少为人知的、古老而神秘的学科，在我国有深厚的历史文化积淀，有广博的群众基础。

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Volleyball is the only one of the three big balls that has won the world champion in China, which once had substantial mass foundation and abundant reserve forces.

排球在我国曾拥有广泛的群众基础和雄厚的后备力量，是我国三大球项目中唯一一个夺得世界冠军的项目。

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Supporters of the plan say that, nevertheless, it will lay the foundation for a new kind of mass transportation in the United States.

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In 1944,when many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production, Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

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"We announced in November that as the trust was one of the smallest in the country, it did not have the critical mass of services sufficient to become a standalone NHS Foundation Trust, " the trust statement continued.

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According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, most girls develop about 90% of their bone mass by age 18 and boys by age 20.

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So it looks like firefighters may be the next unlucky professionals replaced by cheap robotic labor, at least if a snakebot built by the Foundation for Industrial and Scientific Research in Norway (SINTEF) ever makes it into mass production.

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