不过按照国际标准，这个数字并不是很大：比如，美国据称容纳了1200万未在册的劳工，按人头计算是英国的三倍。
The number is still small by international standards: America, for instance, is thought to harbour some 12m undocumented workers, more than three times as many as Britain has per head.
Woolley最初以400万英镑捐建研究金融市场机能不良的学会(以英国标准，这是一个客观的数字)。
Woolley originally endowed his institute on dysfunctionality with four million pounds. (By British standards, that is a significant sum.)
英国广告标准部在去年收到了561条涉及虚假环保广告的投诉，这一数字在前年仅为117条。
The Advertising Standards Authority in Britain received 561 complaints about potentially false green ads last year, up from 117 the year before.
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