It is a good idea to place your order well in advance as delivery can often take months rather than weeks.

早早提前订购是个好主意，因为交货常常要花几个月的时间，而不是几星期。

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The job will take months rather than weeks.

完成这项工作需要几个月，而不是几周。

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Iterations often take hours or days rather than weeks.

迭代过程通常只花费几个小时或者几天，而不是几周。

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"We know that surface use of dispersants decreases the environmental risk to shorelines and organisms at the surface and we know that dispersants break down over weeks rather than remaining for several years as untreated oil might."

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Incidents, like attempts to hack into a database server, show up in real-time rather than weeks later.

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In order to gain entrance to the latter, I had to apply months in advance, rather than weeks.

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The interface is familiar enough that training usually takes hours rather than weeks.

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