There has been an underspend in the department's budget.

该部门的预算中出现了支出不足。

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In recent years, there has been an unusually large number of divorces in the United States.

近年来，美国的离婚案件异乎寻常地多。

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In the last five years or so, there has been an explosion of green claims and environmental claims.

在过去五年左右的时间里，声称绿色环保的宣传激增。

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Police Colonel Omidi insists that Iranian government authorities will intervene in political matters on the Internet if there has been an illegal act.

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Now readers have always seemed to have agreed that Milton's Lycidas is an enormously admirable poem, but for a few hundred years now there has been a controversy over how admirable Milton's Lycidas is, specifically as an elegy.

现在读者们一致认为,弥尔顿的《利西达斯》是一首极其非凡的诗作，但是几百年来，对于这首诗，特别是作为一首悼亡诗,到底有多么非凡一直有所争论。

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In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

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But although the UK remains less equal than the OECD average, there has been an improvement.

BBC: UK weak in school fairness rankings

But in Ohio, in recent years, there has been an effort to do more.

CNN: In Ohio, signs of soldiers' sacrifice

Recently, there has been an unprecedented explosion of international interest in traditional and contemporary African art.

FORBES: African Art Sells For Record $850,000 At Bonhams