It rains a lot less than Seattle and the rain is spread out over more days than those cities.

这里的降雨量比西雅图少得多，而且降雨持续时间也比那些城市更长。

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For this year at least, our race to circumnavigate the globe in less than 80 days is over.

至少在今年，我们在八十天内完成环球航行结束了。

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The capacity of individual power stations, many of them hydro plants, rose from a few kilowatts to over a megawatt in less than a decade.

在不到十年的时间里，单个发电站的发电能力就从几千瓦上升到了几兆瓦，其中许多是水力发电站。

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But two areas where the bureau will not have power is over auto lenders or banks with assets of less than ten billion dollars.

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In general, less volatile stocks have done better over time than more volatile stocks, which is somewhat inconsistent with the notion of efficient markets.

一般来说，波动小的股票在长期内比波动大的股票,表现要好，一定程度上,这和金融市场有效论的观点是相悖的。

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On the y axis here it's the percent of people with these two conditions who have cardiovascular disease--or stroke rather 5%--less than 5% and a little over 5% with the stroke as the outcome.

轴表示患有心血管疾病的人同时患有,或不患有代谢综合征的百分比,就中风来说,分别是小于5%和略大于5%

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Interestingly, that's up when Larry Summers and others were recommending this stuff, they were talking about over less than a hundred.

NPR: Comparing White House, Democratic Stimulus Plans

The Basques have no such worries: each Basque province and Navarre collect their own taxes and hand over less than 10% to the central government in Madrid.

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Helms, Biden and other members of the committee praised Holbrooke on Tuesday for working over less than a year and a half to secure most of those reforms.

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