Profits were at the same level as the year before.

利润和前一年的持平。

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I asked, noting that the report was dated almost exactly a year before my visit.

注意到这份报告的日期几乎是我访问前整整一年，我发起了询问。

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He had actually left the company a year before the rumpus started.

其实在争吵开始一年前，他就已经离开了这家公司。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

But the crop of foreign students in agriculture and natural resources was twenty percent bigger than the year before.

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Now I don't know how impressed you are, the year before that it was 22% in one year.

我不知道给你们是否被震撼到了,前年的收益率是22%

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and then I worked in an auction house; "Christie's", for a year before applying to come back to graduate school.

在我申请研究生院之前我还在佳士得拍卖行工作了一年。

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Excluding financials, 67% of companies reported earnings better than the year before, and 68% exceeded expectations.

FORBES: Media Mayhem

Workplace suicides fell 10% in 2009 to 237 after climbing to a high of 263 the year before.

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Legal sources said it may be a year before Mr Montgomery's case comes before the court.

BBC: Legal move over plastic bullets