Last year,Doctor Chan reported that a long-term study of almost fifty thousand men showed that aspirin can help prevent colon cancer.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

It was really the government that made the switch from five-year mortgages to the long-term mortgages.

这实际上是政府主导的改革,从五年抵押贷款变成更长期限的抵押贷款

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

it's a two-and-a-half-year-long program that mixes biology, chemistry, physics and computer science together.

这门课是一个两年半的项目，涵盖了生物学、化学、物理学，还有计算机科学。

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Last year Doctor Chan reported that a long-term study of almost fifty thousand men showed that aspirin can help prevent colon cancer.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

Stocks have paid 4% more a year over this incredibly long time period than short-term bonds.

股票在相当长的一段时间里,每年都比短期债券投资收益率,高出4个百分点。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

These were developed in a year-long process led by state governors and chief state school officers.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

At its extreme what I'm think of an undergraduate Education is a four-year initiation into a life-long Club. Right now students tend to think I come to University and I leave the university. And for many Of them their sole contact is when they get a limonite newsletters and solicitations for donations.

它的极端就是把4年的本科教育,发展为终生教育,现在学生总觉得,来读大学又会马上离开,真正的接触也许只有在,收到校友新闻信和捐款征询时,才感觉到。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The seventy-one year old cried tears of joy as she told the crowd the award was "a long time coming" but worth the wait.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

The board members have fourteen-year terms which is quite a long time.

小组成员有十四年的任期,确实是个很长的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Every year at this time, the peasants began their long religious pilgrimage to Geed-leh, to visit the church there, and to pray for God's help.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

To my surprise, nobody had before created a hundred-year long home price index, which seems surprising to me because the long history of home prices seems like a relevant fact; we want to know what markets do.

让我惊讶的是,此前居然没有人建立百年房屋价格指数,这点让我很惊讶,因为长期的历史房屋价格,看起来似乎是有关联的,我们很想知道市场的动向

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She had won a year-long fellowship at Harvard University for writing about the homeless.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

(THE JAMIES - "SUMMERTIME,SUMMERTIME") It is summer almost all year long in California.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

The year-long program involves at-risk children in troubled New York City schools.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Job cuts are spreading throughout the economy as the year-long recession deepens.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

He is referring to reports that the Army was planning a coup following the end of the 25-year-long civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

That's what author William Alexander discovered when he embarked on a year-long odyssey to re-create the perfect loaf of peasant bread.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Lawmakers smashed open doors and staged a weeks-long sit-in to prevent votes related to the deal earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Opposition demonstrators are targeting French concerns because of the long relationship between French leaders and the 42-year-rule of Gabonese President Omar Bongo.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Last year,President Obama revived a long-standing request for Saudi Arabia to move towards recognition of Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

... Twenty-six year-old Louis Jacques Franto told us if the government wants to move us that is fine, as long as it is safe.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

This 17-year-old boy says he spends long days carrying water back to his family's home.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Pyongyang pulled out of the talks earlier this year. It also tested both a long-range missile and a nuclear explosive, in violation of United Nations sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

In the year-long battle over reform, President Obama stressed the importance of billions of dollars in longer-term savings from reducing waste in the current health care system.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

This latest incident comes at a time when Afghanistan is witnessing its worst violence of the eight-year-long war following the ouster of the Taliban from power in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The list of reasons why teams coming from abroad were not thrilled at the prospect of several weeks in Nigeria for this year's Under-17 World Cup is long.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

North Korea pulled out of the talks earlier this year. It also tested both a long-range missile and nuclear explosive earlier in the year, in violation of United Nations sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Throughout the more than year-long preparatory process, FIFA reports indicated that the Nigerians were well behind schedule in assuring that the proper infrastructure would be in place to host the event.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22