We've forked out a small fortune on home improvements over the years.

这些年来我们花了许多钱做房屋装修。

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Ten years later, both large and small businesses had web pages, and most provided users with the opportunity to place an order.

十年后，大大小小的企业都有了网页，而且大多数企业都为用户提供了下单的机会。

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They range from a few days for small lakes up to several hundred years for large ones; Lake Tahoe, in California, has a residence time of 700 years.

它们从小湖的几天到大湖的几百年不等；加州的太浩湖有700年的滞留时间。

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She shook a little bell on the table, and a small black girl about twelve years old ran into the room.

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And I have actually seen evidence over the years, mercifully, just a small amount of evidence, but there are, in a group like this, always a few students who come in with a really strong background in high school.

这几年我已经见到了实例，令人感激的是，只有小部分人，但在这，像这样的一个小组，总有一些来到我们这的学生,在高中打下了良好的基础。

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She shook a little bell on the table, and a small black girl about 12 years old ran into the room.

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The small home movement has been around for years in small cities and rural areas, but this summer, it made a big incursion into one of the country's largest and most densely populated urban centers.

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Yet, apart from closing a small theatre seven years ago, it has done nothing to lighten the cultural burden.

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Rising health care costs have hammered small businesses for years, so any help on this front is big news for entrepreneurs.

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