In the last year and the last half year, I studied hard English.

在过去的一年半里，我努力地学习英语。

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If so, I would try to play in the USA for the last half year. Not because of money, but because of English and of having a new experience.

假如真的要离开，我或许会在最后半年里去美国踢球，不是因为钱，而是因为想学英语和新的体验。

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This year city services will separate for recycling enough refuse to reduce the number of truckloads of refuse to be incinerated to half of last year's number.

今年，城市服务部门将对垃圾进行分类回收，从而将垃圾焚烧的卡车数量减少到去年的一半。

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"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

American schools provided aid to almost half of foreign graduate students during the last academic year, but only ten percent of undergraduates.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Last year,the United States spent two and a half trillion dollars on health care.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

As we predicted, the five-year EVA Momentum rankings have not changed much in the last half year.

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The Web magazine RecessionWire (subtitle: "The Upside of the Downturn"), whose founders were themselves laid off from other companies, has nursed this idea of reinvention over the last half year, with stories on poverty-provoked spiritual awakenings and musings on next steps.

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Although the housing market has stabilized over the last half a year, the chorus calling for a double dip in housing is growing louder as data such as this runs counter to a sustainable recovery thesis.

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