In fact, the Tower of London was built a thousand years ago, while the Tower Bridge only has a history of over one hundred years.

事实上，伦敦塔是在一千年前建造的，而塔桥只有一百多年的历史。

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Nine thousand years ago, the maize cob was very hard, and eating it raw would have made you very ill.

九千年前，玉米芯是很硬的，生吃的话你会病得很惨。

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Since the Ice Age ended ten thousand years ago and warmer temperatures returned to the northern latitudes, many species have migrated north.

自从一万年前冰河时代结束，气温回升到北纬地区，许多物种都向北迁移。

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The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley.

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People moved into the American Southwest more than ten thousand years ago as the last ice age was ending.

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Twenty thousand years ago the spot where I live was under a mile of ice.

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It's because in the old days, which was three or four years ago, not a thousand years ago, the video stores, namely Blockbuster, bought their videos depending on how many people came on an opening weekend.

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