He had buried his wife some two years before he retired.

他大约在退休前两年丧妻。

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Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.

化学测试显示，在她去世前的两年里，她大约每两个月搬家一次。

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Yet two years before Dickens's birth, his mother's father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return.

然而就在狄更斯出生前两年，他的外祖父因偷窃被抓并且逃到了欧洲，再也没有回来。

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The Cassatt family lived in Paris, France for about two years before moving to Heidelberg in modern day Germany.

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I also served for the two years before that as the policy director of President Bush's presidential campain, working at the Texas.

在那之前，我做过两年的,布什总统选举的,政策主任，在德州工作。

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I got from a person that I worked with for two and a half years before coming here.

我在来这儿之前和他一起工作了两年半的时间。

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Twenty-two years before becoming King in 1483, Richard was granted the dukedom of Gloucester.

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And the charity rehomed 29, 880 cats in 2011, less than the 36, 070 two years before.

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His wife, Nanette, had filed for divorce two years before, and the couple was legally separated.

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