A stretch of road outside one former army base, which offers target practice to anyone who walks in, was packed with cars.

一个从前的陆军基地外的一段公路现在成了靶场，谁想来这里练习射击都可以，靶场外挤满了汽车。

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Since then, the city has sold large plots of the former air base to other developers, while earmarking yet other parcels for future sale to help pay for the new business district.

从那个时候起，武汉已经向其它开发商出售了这座前空军基地的大片土地，同时又在其它地块上打上标记，以便将来出售支付新商业区开发费用。

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"The pandas will be comfortable living here as it is not far from the former base," Huang was quoted as saying.

黄表示：“大熊猫会生活得非常舒适，因为这里距原来的基地不远。”

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Although the revised plan involves anti-ballistic missiles installed at a former air base in Poland, defense experts say Moscow perceives the new project as less threatening to its security.

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As his family lived close to Greenham Common in Berkshire - a former air-force base where nuclear-armed US planes were stationed in the 1980s - Mr Cameron said he had also been aware of the arguments about nuclear weapons and Britain's defence.

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