For a number of years I worked as a typesetter.

我做了几年排字工人。

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Let us skip a number of years.

让我们跳过几年。

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Their relationship has developed over a number of years.

多年来他们的友谊日益深厚。

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It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

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There are groups of people who have studied the impact of Trans fats on health for a number of years.

有些人已对反式脂肪,对健康的影响进行了数年的研究

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It's true of Windows, it's true of the Sequel Databases from guys like Oracle, the Google guys were at it for a number of years before that thing really took off.

视窗“系统就是这样，甲骨文公司的关系数据库也是这样，谷歌公司的创立者花了很多年,才让一切走上正轨。

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Mr. LINKOV: We're not going to see fuel cells for a number of years.

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"This has been going on for a number of years, " he told CNN in October.

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And as a result, the local economy will contract for a number of years.

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