Profits were at the same level as the year before.

利润和前一年的持平。

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More than 30 percent of the people who answered the survey listen to audiobooks, higher than the year before.

超过30%的受访者选择听有声读物，这一比例高于前一年。

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In 1850, he exhibited 4 of these late paintings in the Academy, in the year before he died.

1850年，也就在他去世的前一年，他在学院的展览上展出了4幅这样的晚期作品。

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But the crop of foreign students in agriculture and natural resources was twenty percent bigger than the year before.

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Now I don't know how impressed you are, the year before that it was 22% in one year.

我不知道给你们是否被震撼到了,前年的收益率是22%

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Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out all in one volume. They had been written over a series of years, got a lot of exposure--called "The Literature of Exhaustion."

在写完这一卷故事的前一年,巴斯写了一篇著名的论文，在60年代，叫《枯竭的文学》

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Excluding financials, 67% of companies reported earnings better than the year before, and 68% exceeded expectations.

FORBES: Media Mayhem

Workplace suicides fell 10% in 2009 to 237 after climbing to a high of 263 the year before.

FORBES: America's Deadliest Jobs

So in the year before I took office, this industry lost more than 400, 000 jobs.

WHITEHOUSE: A Resurgent American Automotive Industry