Even so, "the jobless rate was still expected to decline slowly and to remain elevated at the end of 2012," the minutes said.

尽管如此，还是期待失业率缓慢下降，并在2012年末有些许上升。

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"Our conversion rate was poor and we started too slowly too often," he said.

“我们攻防转会速度太可怜了，我们经常开局进入状态很慢，”他说。

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The 2006 report--which examined the previous year and beyond--said that real GDP "will grow slowly at a diminishing rate from 2005 through 2009, " decelerating from 3.5% in 2005 to 3.1% in 2009.

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The department said last week that employers added 155, 000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate is falling, albeit slowly.

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