After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

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This Cambridge History of Food talks about three separate primary phases in human food evolution: one beginning a million and a half years ago, another about 700,000 years ago, and then the 10,000 year ago one that I talked about just a moment ago.

剑桥饮食史》描述了,人类饮食结构演化过程中的三个不同阶段,其一,始于一百五十万年前,其二,距今约七十万年,其三,距今一万年,我们刚讨论过了

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"Because we asked, and other parties asked, three years ago three and a half years ago for the setting up of the Iraq Inquiry."

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

He was chucked into military custody and held in a Navy brig for almost three and a half years.

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He attended a trade school to become a court reporter, and when he joined the Army, three and a half years out of high school, that was his assignment.

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At a press conference Mayor Bloomberg announced Burress should get three and a half years in prison, mandated by a recently passed state law that's meant to add some teeth to gun control.

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