In the first quarter of the year, the unemployment rate was 9.5 percent.

而今年的第一季度，失业率为9.5%。

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Worldwide sales of Hummers slumped by 61% to 5, 013 during the first quarter of the year.

今年一季度，悍马汽车的全球销量是5013辆，大幅下滑61%。

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Estonia's GDP growth rate in the first quarter of the year was 8.5%, the highest in the European Union.

爱沙尼亚今年第一季度GDP增长速度为8.5%，在欧盟国家中增幅最大。

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Footwear sales rose by about 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, with exports to several markets, including China,up.

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When exports of automobiles crossed a quarter of a million in the first seven months of the year, India's auto industry had two reasons to cheer.

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He notes that is an optimistic figure. Economic figures recently released by the Russian Federal Statistics Service show the GDP declined in the first quarter of this year by 9.5 percent.

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For the UK as a whole, the first quarter of the year saw total workloads edge higher.

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For the first quarter of the year, Netflix added 2 million U.S. subscribers.

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Overall, residential real estate prices soared 68% in the first quarter of the year, compared to the corresponding period last year.

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