These facilities would give another two years of service except in so far as they are overworked.

这些设备除非过度使用，否则还可再用两年。

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NO. 5 I have always felt that the position of an author is not and can't be distinguished or respectable, except in so far as it is not a profession.

我总是觉得，一个作家不会也不可能有所作为，如果他把写作当成一种职业。

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The human deaths from H5N1 have so far occurred as a result of direct infection from birds - except in two outbreaks where rare human-to-human transmission appears to have occurred.

至今所有死于禽流感的患者除了两例罕见人与人之间传播的病例外，均为直接从鸟类感染。

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So there is no reason to fear that globalisation itself threatens traditional non-western cultures, such as Islam, except in so far as individual freedom threatens them.

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If the sinking were stopped by adding fresh water (a deus ex machina often invoked to change the climate), the Gulf Stream would hardly care except in so far as the wind system changed too.

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If that is correct, 83% of those who do not pay income tax don't really fit Mr Romney's characterisation, except in so far as his argument is that people who don't pay income tax aren't impressed by promises of income tax cuts.

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