Even better, you can run your program for a long, long time, ensuring that you trigger many garbage collections, more accurately amortizing the allocation and garbage collection cost.

更好一些的话，您可以长时间运行您的程序，这可以保证触发许多垃圾收集，从而更精确地分摊垃圾收集的成本。

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However, there are many firms that have market power or monopoly power, which means that they can increase their price above marginal cost and sustain sales for a long period of time. [1].

但同时许多企业具有一定的市场势力或者说是垄断势力，这意味着他们能够长期将价格定在边际成本之上。

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For a long time Blu-ray has looked like the most likely winner, even though the discs are slightly more expensive to produce and the players cost more.

很长一段时间，即使是蓝光碟片制造起来更贵，蓝光机器成本更高，但蓝光看起来还是最有可能的赢家。

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It has taken a very long time, cost a great amount of treasure, and no small number of public health workers lives.

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But it took a long time, and cost many lives.

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Butanol as a fuel has been around a long time, but the cost to produce it was never competitive with gasoline.

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