Nearly twenty years ago, when my aunt, Holly, was 15 years old, she was diagnosed with 1 multiple sclerosis, a disease that attacks the central nervous system.

大约在20年前，我姨妈霍莉15岁的时候，她被确诊患了多发性硬化症——一种会侵袭中枢神经系统的疾病。

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Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them.

四十年前，修女的人数几乎到一百，十五年前，只有二十八个人了。

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Twenty-five years ago, living standards in the two dirt-poor Asian giants were similar, but now the average Chinese is nearly twice as well-off as his Indian neighbour.

25年前，亚洲两大贫穷大国的生活水平基本类似，但是现在，中国人的平均水平几乎是邻国印度的两倍。

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Nearly twenty years ago, in Jurassic Park, actor Mazzello played a child victimized by a technology abused and gone awry.

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But while there and attired with some Charlotte insignia from nearly twenty years ago, I bonded with the 25-30 49er supporters who had made the trip from Charlotte.

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Worldwide smallpox vaccination was halted nearly twenty years ago, leaving most of the world's population with no immunity -and thus, easy victims of a Third World biological attack.

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