Many critics had called 2008 a 'weak year', especially in contrast with 2007's crop of highly successful, but also critically acclaimed, movies such as No Country For Old Men.

很多影评人称2008年为“疲软之年”，尤其是与2007年相比，因为2007年有多部票房成功、评价也高的电影，如《老无所依》。

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But the American economy is weak, and twenty-ten is an election year.

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But he said the labor market could remain weak through next year.

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Kim Bayley, director of the ERA, blamed the slump on a weak year with few blockbuster hits.

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The cereal index, which hit its highest level since 2008, was the focus of the report, as the FAO estimated that a tightening market on the back of a weak year for cereal production in 2010 will put additional pressure on prices.

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For all of 2012, Fiesta sold 17 percent fewer units than a year earlier, sliding to under 57, 000 sales overall (though in December they rose by more than 50 percent versus a weak year-earlier month, and ticked up by more than 20 percent last month).

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