After more than 30 years of development, the company has now beaten Apple and become the world's second largest maker of smartphones.

经过30多年的发展，该公司现已击败苹果，成为全球第二大智能手机制造商。

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The researchers say the first few years of development are critical.

研究人员说，成长的前几年是至关重要的。

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Ten years of development has made Winamp an impressive iTunes adversary.

十年的开发使得Winamp成为iTunes强有力的对手

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The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains.

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One of the big arguments that is part of this story is when did this development of new way of fighting come about; rather quickly, over a matter of a few years, or did it stretch out over quite a long time.

人们对此最大的争议就在于,这种新型战斗方式是何时为军队所用的,是在短短几年内迅速发展起来的呢,还是在很长的一段时间逐步形成的呢

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Twenty years ago, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development was created to help former communist countries after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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After four years of development, GoalZero began selling products in the latter part of 2010.

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However, after 15 years of development, the sophisticated new vehicle was not faring well.

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At the moment, however, these are isolated examples that took years of development to achieve global success.

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