I mean, for centuries... Okay, well maybe not centuries.

我指，几百年以来，也许没那么久。

youdao

That results in a range that spans decades, not centuries.

采用地层学断代推算出的时间范围是几十年，而不是几百年。

youdao

What one community knows, all know (at least over decades, if not centuries).

只要一个社区知晓，其他的社区也都会知道（这个过程如果不是花费数个世纪的时间，就是数十年）。

youdao

President Kennedy once said: "I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we,too,will be remembered not for our victories or defeats in battle or politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."

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And in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries this progression was viewed as an advance, which is not very surprising because the whole theory was put forward by scholars who were basically western monotheists.

在十八十九世纪，这个演变,被认为是一种进步，这并不奇怪,因为整个理论基本上都是由,西方一神论者提出的。

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The classical hoplite formation then was not the long lived military institution of scholarly tradition, but merely one phase in a history of almost four centuries of slow change towards ever denser and more cohesive heavy infantry formations."

这种方阵的形成,并不是经过长期传承的传统军事制度,只是步兵阵型演变的一个阶段,战阵逐渐向更加紧密坚固的步兵阵型转化,而这个变化持续了约有四个世纪"

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Would any institution be capable of instilling a permanent crisis mentality lasting decades, if not centuries?

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Eco-systems (such as Prince William Sound) recover from oil spills to a substantial degree, and within decades, not centuries.

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And second, the new and growing boom in hydrocarbon production in the United States and elsewhere promises to push peak oil decades, if not centuries, into the future.

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