Sixteen years ago, Quebec mandated that all immigrants send their children to French schools.

16年前，魁北克省规定所有移民都要送孩子上法语学校。

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Sixteen years ago I was doing commercial photography.

十六年前，我开始从事商业摄影。

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It was a warm, sunny, Saturday afternoon some fifteen or sixteen years ago.

那是十五六年前一个温暖明媚的周六下午。

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I was probably, I think, sixteen when I went, so this was several, several years ago.

那时我才十六岁，那是几年前的事了。

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Sixteen years ago, Argentina had to get past the Germans to win their second world title.

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Sixteen years ago, it seemed a long way from the Highland croft to the House of Commons.

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Sixteen years ago, Massachusetts-based VisiCorp was a major software company, having fueled the PC revolution by commercializing the worlds first spreadsheet, VisiCalc.

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