He died before Christmas, only a month shy of his 90th birthday.

他在圣诞节前去世了，仅差一个月就满90岁。

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The war had ended only a month or so before.

战争大约在一个月前才结束。

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A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

在我第一次参加马拉松比赛的前一个月，我的一只脚踝受伤了，这意味着两个星期不能跑步，只剩两个星期的训练时间。

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Only a month before Mr. Zelaya was deposed, Mr. Insulza led the effort to lift the OAS membership ban on Cuba.

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On top of this, a significant segment of the Iraqi armed forces had been devastated in the confrontation with coalition forces that had ended only a month before.

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He said a big factor was that only a month before Japan had moved their currency dramatically, and a lot of people borrowed in the Japanese yen to invest in various commodities and instruments.

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