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n. 年；年度；历年；年纪；一年的期间；某年级的学生

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Within two years, Leah shed the safety of her accounting job and made the switch complete.

There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.

Product transitions used to take five or seven years; now they take one or two.

Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: About the time my daughter was five years old, I started having a sense that ‘this isn't right.

It has a history of over two thousand years.

In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.

Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work.

Another issue affecting real estate in the coming year will be America's failing infrastructure.

Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago.

The second trip was made in October last year.

The red color was popular for Chinese New Year celebrations.

He estimated that the comfort level will increase considerably in five to ten years3) One dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driver in what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska.

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

They tend to decline in people's later years.

The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.

The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

Most people's minds function at a high level even in their later years, according to researcher Timothy Salthouse.

It weakens in one's later years.

In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.

A quarter of this year's American grain harvest will be used to produce bio-fuel for cars.

A fourth of this year's U.S. grain harvest will go to fuel cars.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

Jody has a Ph.D.in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

Jody has a Ph.D. in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.

And based on past experiences, it takes four to five years after economic recovery for unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels.

92 were found to have higher nicotine yields than they did six years previously.

We validated these expectations in a study in which two other psychologists and I monitored 373 students for two years during the transition to junior high school, when the work gets more difficult and the grading -102- more strict, to determine how their mind-sets might affect their math grades.

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

Research is converging ( ' , 汇聚) on the conclusion that great accomplishment and even genius is typically the result of years of passion and dedication and not something that flows naturally from a gift.

Many of the reductions over the past 30 years have been achieved either by reducing the amount of sugar, salt or fat in a product, or by finding an alternative ingredient.

It's an administrative sham ( ' , 欺诈) of the kind that has multiplied over the last 30 years.

I designed an eight-session workshop for 91 students whose math grades were declining in their first year of junior high.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

By contrast, a Danish tax on foods high in fats was abandoned a year after its introduction, amid claims that consumers were avoiding it by crossing the border to Germany to satisfy their desire for cheaper, fattier fare.

But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.

A number of companies have sprung up—GamEffective, Bunchball and Badgeville, to name a few—in recent years offering gamification platforms for businesses.

The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it is considering closing about 3,700 post offices over the next year because of falling revenues.

He says the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.

He has been growing tea in the Kerugoya area for 40 years.

Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.

Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U.S. as there were 20 years ago.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

On New Year's Eve, Russians have the world's latest bedtime, hitting the hay at around 3:30 a.m.

Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.

It has pleasant weather all year round.

If the most health-conscious among us have such deep swings in our shut-eye levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing? They are culture-related.

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block—I was not able to produce anything for three years.

Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey ( ' , 冰球 ) final.

But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude.

I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother's guidance, but I can't recall them.

The number of British films being made has declined in the past few years, according to new figures.

Once, just after I returned from my year in Vienna, I was asked to translate for a German judge at an Olympiclevel horse event.

It has been brought on by years of eating anything he could get his hands on.

If I had the time and money, Iwould live for a year in as many countries as possible.

ConAgra’s Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don’t sacrifice taste.

In 1955 Time's Man of the Year was Harlow Curtice, the boss of GM.

Because Harlow Curtice's firm was leading America in creating "a new economic order", he was named by Time magazine asMan of the Year in

Americans drove more miles last year than any other year on record.

Anyway, I'm only going to be there for a year, doing my masters, so it's pretty good.

Around 1804, Talleyrand challenged Careme to produce a full menu for his personal castle, instructing the young baker to use local, seasonal fruits and vegetables and to avoid repeating main dishes over the course of an entire year.

Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practi

Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries.

Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey (冰球) final.

Come to think of it, my parents did throw her a surprise party that year.

ConAgra's Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don't sacrifice taste.

Congratulations! Yes, I believe for international students, you'll have to pay around 13,000 pounds a year.

Earlier this year, Italy signed an accord with UNESCO to establish a task force of police art detectives and archaeologists (考古学家) to protect cultural heritage from natural disasters and terror groups, such as IsiS.

Enjoy the snow now, because chances are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept.

For example, we have quartz crystal clocks and watches accurate to within one minute a year.

For most of the first year of life, if something is out of sight, it's out of mind.

He says the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.

If all goes well, the company says it could have the feature in all of its hotels by next year.

If I had the time and money, I would live for a year in as many countries as possible.

If the most health-conscious among us have such deep swings in our shut-eye levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing?

If the show is a success, we can then look at making a second season for the following year.

In Lagos, foreign oil workers can pay as much as $65,000 per year in rent for a modest apartment in a safe part of town.

I've been looking for a job for a year and more.

Last year, a study from Aston University in the UK used nearly identical parameters to our study and found similar results.

Last year, supporters pushed for Pedals to be moved to a shelter, but New Jersey officials have said they won't allow the bear to be captured and transferred to the facility.

Late November and December saw early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two decades, record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones.

Lost income alone amounts to $225 billion a year.

millions die early from air pollution each year.

Next week, the exhibition will be taken over by the wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition.

Officials of the Tunisian government are especially worried after dozens of tourists were killed in the attack in Tunisia last year.

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t

Once, just after I returned from my year in Vienna, I was asked to translate for a German judge at an Olympic level horse event.

Plus, she's not sure what she'll be doing next year.

Seattle gets an average of a mere 7 days a year with thunder.

So, for example, my sister's birthday is December 9th and her golden birthday would have been the year she turned nine years old.

Starting April 28 of this year, the National Museum of Natural history will begin renovating its fossil hall.

Storms and floods in its main potato growing region last year caused the worst harvest in more than 3 decades.

That's because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an El niño year.

The authors also calculate that the emissions from using 19 microwaves over a year are the same as those from using a car.

Thus was born the idea of the Grand Tour, a practice which introduced Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and also Americans to the art and culture of France and Italy for the next 300 years.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.

The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.

Some socioeconomic differences in child rearing have shrunk in the past ten years.

Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.

Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.

Nearly all members of last year's winning U.S.IMO team took part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.

Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve.

It's also pushing ahead in 2016 with an expansion of Bluemercury, the beauty chain it bought last year.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.

In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in their children's education.

Facilities management has greatly improved in recent years.

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.

According to Richard Rusczyk, the company founder, the six U.S.team members who competed at the IMO last year collectively took more than 40 courses on the site.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

About 80% of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls ( ' , 短缺) in cold-weather goods, said chief executive Terry Lundgren in a press release.

2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wideranging challenges.

Retailers make the most money this time of a year, about 20 to 30 percent of annual revenue.

It is the busiest shopping day of the year.

For years, many of us have relied on antibiotic use to treat various infections.

For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

Spending fell by 10% in the first half of the year.

Our problems are structural, and will take many years to solve.

Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related ( ' , 与腹泻相关的) diseases, according to WHO statistics.

Most agree that the solution is to push doctors to accept fixed payments to care for a particular illness or for a patient's needs over a year.

Magna, an advertising agency, reckons it will be worth about $138 million this year.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

It's been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twelve years, says Colin Dixon of a digital-media consultancy.

Interactive television advertising, which allows viewers to use their remote controls to click on advertisements, has been pushed for years.

Interactive television advertising will become popular in 10-12 years.

In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide.

In the last five years or so, there has been an explosion of green claims and environmental claims.

Hunt through the reports prepared by UN agencies and development groups—many for conferences such as this year's Millennium Goals review—and you will find that the linkage between environmental protection and economic progress is a common thread.

Get a bottom 1% teacher, and the effect is the same as if a child misses 40% of the school year.

Even during the turbulent years of last century, youth rebellion was often exaggerated in the media.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.

Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.

But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

BrightLine iTV, which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year.

A new effort led by Canoe Ventures, a coalition of leading cable providers, aims to make interactive advertising available across America later this year.

A handful of lawsuits have been filed in recent years against companies accused of using misleading environmental labels.

A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those unadaptable and untrained workers.

Today, my guest is Dana Ivanovich, who has worked for the last twenty years as an interpreter.

The report warnsthe picture on wages is likely to get worse this year despite indications of an economic rebound.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

Mothers have been warned for years that sleeping with their newborn infant is a bad idea, because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.

This year's electronics show featured the presence of many officials from the federal government.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come, said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association ( ' , CTA).

The Paris climate agreement finalised in December last year heralded a new era for climate action.

The Consumer Electronics Show in recent years has begun to focus more on the practical value than the showiness of electronic devices.

The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

That, too, explains the heavy Washington presence at this year's show, as these new technologies intrude upon heavily regulated areas.

Teenagers' lifestyles have changed greatly in recent years.

Scan the highlights of this year's Consumer Electronics Show ( ' , CES), and you may get a slight feeling of having seen them before.

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

More than 100 years ago, American sociologist W.

Many of the coolest gadgets this year are the same as the coolest gadgets last year – or the year before, even.

It opened its fourth station last year and is pressing ahead with plans to build a fifth.

In addition to many senior officials from the Federal Trade and Federal Communications commissions, this year's list of policy makers also includes appearances from Transportation Curran, the Accenture analyst, said that increased government interest in the show makes sense as technology becomes a larger part of our lives.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning ￡21,000 a year.

For years, smartphones, televisions, tablets, laptops and desktops have made up a huge part of the market and driven innovation.

For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

Fewer innovative products were found at this year's electronic products show.

Du Bravac works for CTA – which puts on the show each year – and said that this shift to a search for solutions has been noticeable as he researched his predictions for 2016.

Colombia said this year that it planned to join other South American nations with bases in Antarctica.

But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

Brazil opened a research station in 1984, but it was largely destroyed by a fire that killed two members of the navy in 2012, the same year that a diesel-laden Brazilian barge sank near the base.

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at an elevation of 9,301 feet on a plateau at the South Pole.

She’s figured out that it will take her another three years to pay it off at 30 dollars a month.

People physically fit enough to survive over 100 years ultimately give in to diseases such as Alzheimer’s, which affects the mind and cognitive function.

One Chicago woman, for example, discovered that daily lunches with coworkers cost her 2,000 dollars a year.

In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

And I’m going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.

We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time, says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.

Twenty years later, it was purposefully dropped to make way for Negro.

This is a very sensible way for an animal to make decisions in the wild and would have been very helpful for humans for thousands of years.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).

The Love Food, Hate Waste campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.

The African-American group estimated that he earned about ＄37,000 a year and had a two-year college degree.

Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

One hundred years ago, Colored was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent.

Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.

It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.

It has experienced dramatic changes in recent years.

In the US, the House of Representatives Science Committee has approved a bill allocating $10 million a year to studying energy-related behaviour.

"I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age" Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son.

A 90-year-old has been awarded "woman of the year" for being Britain's oldest full-time employee-still working 40 hours a week.

A coin is put into the cake, which signifies 预示 success in the new year for the person who receives it.

A few times each year, an inspector arrived to look over the entire light station.

A latest study on the college job market showed that employers wanted to hire 22% fewer graduates this year than last.

A multi-year drought (干旱) in south-east Brazil is becoming worse.

A quick review of successes and failures at the end of year will help shape your year ahead.

A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago.

A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

A year ago, when I was awaiting to hear the results of my college applications, I often went to websites for some type of insider look on what college would be like.

A year later, I reached my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and enormous.

According to a recent study, four out of ten people under 35 years old are planning to downshift from stressful jobs to a slower pace of life.

According to a review of evidence in a medical journal, runners live three years longer than non-runners.

According to the report's key findings, the proportion who say they ‘hardly ever' read for fun has gone from 8 percent of 13-year-olds.

After 75 years the plaza theater has shown its last movie.

After all, a dollar was a tidy sum for an 11-year-old boy in 1961.

After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, Jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008.

After ten years of living in one, I can't imagine ever living in a small town again.

After years of heated debate, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone national park.

After years of regular treatment, she finally became healthy.

Already this year, 115 measles cases have been reported in the USA, compared with 189 for all of last year.

Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year.

An assumption behind UK insurance for driverless cars, introduced earlier this year, insists that a human "be watchful and monitoring the road" at every moment.

And that's exactly what I did when I was fifteen years old.

And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction.

As a first-year, I was afraid to make any noise towards campus issues that I noticed.

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

As a senior next year, I think extra periods should be used to take optional subjects.

At the start of this year, foreigners living in italy amounted to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants’ children accounting for an ever larger percentage of births in italy.

Basically, it's "I've got to produce this product and then, at the end of year, present it to NASA".

Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in America, usually $8 to $10 a year.

Before the school year ended, I gave the kids a special gift, t-shirts with the words "verbs are your friends" on them.

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

Ben, had got in touch, he'd moved to England with his mum when he was three and it had been 13 years since I'd last seen him.

Benjamin west, the father of American painting, showed his talent for art when he was only six years of age.

But after all, those years, I found that dance was gradually becoming something that felt like more of a burden than a joy.

But do you know that every year a lot of useless computers and cellphones will ruin the soil?

But gold was discovered there in 1897, and two years later, it was one of the largest cities in the west, with a population of 30, 000.

But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creature.

But the new national sleep foundation survey found that 35% of 10- to 12-year-olds get only seven or eight hours.

But unlike school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term resting.

But, according to a new study, we should be placing a higher value on motherhood all year.

By last year, the Yellowstone wolf population had grown to more than 170 wolves.

By next year, half of the calls we receive will be scams (欺诈).

By year three, the rabbits and the groundhog were back.

Charles darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate (亲密的) than the world we can see and hear.

China's high-speed railways are growing from 9,000 to 25,000 kilometers in the past few years.

Connor gave the deciding vote in many important cases during her 24 years on the top court.

Corn production has jumped nearly 125 percent over the past 25 years, while rice has increased only 7 percent.

Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened (蔓上成熟的) promise, I've refused to buy winter tomatoes for years.

During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a "free" course, called thinking chess, for three credits.

During the last few years, business executives and book writers looking for a new way to advise corporate America have been exploiting Shakespeare's wisdom for profitable ends.

During the rosy years of elementary school (小学), I enjoyed sharing my dolls and jokes, which allowed me to keep my high social status.

El nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken.

Even after all these years, I want to get better and better.

Every man, woman, and child over ten years of age has on average over four cups a day.

Every year about 40, 000 people attempt to climb kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

Every year more than 10, 000 people head for the city of albuquerque, new mexico.

Every year since 1818, the people of Zurich, Switzerland, celebrate the beginning of spring by blowing up a snowman.

Every year, whoever makes the most beautiful kite will win a prize in the kite festival.

Fifteen years ago, I took a summer vacation in lecce in southern italy.

First, I want to get a job as a computer programmer, and then after five years or so, I'd like to start my own business.

Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in seattle, I used tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students.

Follow-up studies should last for one year.

Food also plays an important role in many new year celebrations.

For instance, one study followed 238 volunteers in Florida over a year.

For the past two years, Gordon's students have been studying ways to kill bacteria in zero gravity, and they think they're close to a solution.

For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone.

For years researchers have attempted to show that television is dangerous to children.

For years, my mum has been helping out by giving them whatever food she could spare.

Four years before, she'd had to offer her paperboy a drink to have someone to talk with.

From what I've read, it seems that a starting pay would be around $12, 000 a year.

Grocery stores of the future might stock "food" that lasts years on end, freeing up shelf space and reducing transportation and storage requirements.

Hannah started to think about how she could help, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.

He had owned that business for 15 years.

He observed that homer was still admired after two thousand years.

He unfortunately passed away last year due to his cancer, but he left a deep impression on me and gave me the inspiration to pick up my pen again.

Helen Mirren stars in the play by Peter Morgan, about queen Elizabeth II of the UK and her private meetings with twelve prime ministers in the course of sixty years.

Her years of hard work have finally been acknowledged after a customer nominated her to be cheshire's woman of the year.

How does Owain James feel about the gap-year phenomenon?

How many cans will be used up in a cat's 15-year lifetime in a recycling economy?

How many hours of sleep do 11-year-olds need every day?

How much can a new person for the first year?

How much may they pay if an 11-year-old girl and her working parents visit the museum?

How much would a mother earn a year if working as the prime minister?

However, 110 years is probably the longest that anyone could hope to live—if he or she is extremely healthy and lucky.

However, the class was one of my favorites that year.

However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace in eastern cities.

Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic every year.

I discovered even more about one of humanity's earliest forms of life art during several years of research around the world.

I don't think I want to spend a year and a half out there on my own.

I go back years ago, when we lived in a three-room house, when we got up before daylight and worked till after dark to make ends meet.

I graduated on scholarship and danced professionally for ten years.

When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions last years, according to Doug Fog, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

It is only in recent years that we hear It is only in recent years that we hear the more honest argument that predators are members of the community, and that no special interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of a benefit ,real or fancied ,to itself.

This development is boosting wholesale demand from the food service segment by 4 to 5 percent a year across Europe, compared with growth in retail demand of 1 to 2 percent.

The truth will not be known for years.

The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes it reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

You can, Mr.Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four.

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange.

In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research.

He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later.

For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached.

But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years.

But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

The only American public-sector workers who earn well above $250,000 a year are university sports coaches and the president of the United States.

The networked computer offers the first chance in 50 years to reverse the flow, to encourage thoughtful downloading and, even more importantly, meaningful uploading.

Sometimes years are required for truly novel discovery claims to be accepted and appreciated.

Pledging to run Pilgrim safely, the company has applied for federal permission to keep it open for another 20 years.

Enraged by Entergy’s behavior, the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 last year against allowing an extension.

This year, it was proposed that the system be changed: Horizon 2020, a new program to be enacted in 2014, would not have such a category.

The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

In the 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada ,Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, scolds her unattractive assistant for imagining that high fashion doesn’t affect her, Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant’s sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to departments stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.

For example, the Long Now Foundation has its flagship project a medical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year – about 64 items per person – and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

According to the World Social Science Report 2010, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 2000.

Unfortunately, despite years in the making, “The Heart of the Matter” never gets to the heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.

The US$3-million Fundamental Physics Prize is indeed an interesting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted this year’s award in March.

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, launched this year, takes an unrepresentative view of what the life sciences include.

Such searches can take years.

It is as though 20 years of ever-tougher reforms of the job search and benefit administration system never happened.

In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

Carter sifted through rubble in the Valley of the Kings for seven years before he located the tomb in 1922.

As a News Feature article in Nature discusses, a string of lucrative awards for researchers have joined the Nobel Prizes in recent years.

Another is to let students sit for the bar after only two years of law school.

Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration—one of the great folk wanderings of history—swept from Europe to America.

The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America.

Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in society should be profit and the market.

They don’t make countryside any more，and every year concrete consumes more of it.

Then increase it at a higher rate each year and essentially try to generate additional revenue.

The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.

Getting the print edition seven days a week costs $500 a year—more than twice as much as a digital-only subscription.

And if Peretti were in charge at the Times? “I wouldn’t pick a year to end print,” he said, “I would raise prices and make it into more of a legacy product.

3 billion for the UK in invisible exports and our other education related explores earn up to &10 billion a year more.

Yet two years before Dicken’s birth, his mother’s father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return.

Passengers must pay $85 every five years to process their background checks.

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration ( ' , TSA) found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons---both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

When Shakespeare was twelve years old, the first public playhouse was built in London.

The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers.

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

That common-sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS $2 billion per year.

Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few years, yet this will be little comfort to those who find their lives and careers upended by automation.

Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $286 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures.

It reported a net loss of $5.6 billion for fiscal 2016, the 10th straight year its expenses have exceeded revenue.

Construction took 17 years as the building slowly rose wing by wing.

"Each year the physical presence rule becomes further removed from economic reality and results in significant revenue losses to the States," he wrote in an opinion joined by four other justices.

"I wouldn't pick a year to end print," he said.

"Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns," said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter and Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of tide, Crest and other products last year.

A badly run "year of culture" washes in and out of a place like the tide, bringing prominence for a spell but leaving no lasting benefits to the community.

A group of labour MPs, among them Yvette Cooper, are bringing in the new year with a call to institute a UK "town of culture" award.

A report last year pointed out that the costs both of subscriptions and of these "article preparation costs" had been steadily rising at a rate above inflation.

After all, if everyone you know is going to college in the fall, it seems silly to stay back a year, doesn't it?

After bills, Tony has ￡60 a week to spend, ￡40 of which goes on food, but 10 years ago he was earning ￡130,000 a year working in corporate communications and eating at London's best restaurants at least twice a week.

And after going to school for 12 years, it doesn't feel natural to spend a year doing something that isn't academic.

At Boston College, for example, you would have to complete an extra year were you to switch to the nursing school from another department.

But despite common misconceptions, a gap year does not hinder the success of academic pursuits—in fact, it probably enhances it.

But it can be done: Glasgow's year as European capital of culture can certainly be seen as one of complex series of factors that have turned the city into the power of art, music and theatre that it remains today.

By February the next year Ms.. Simmons had left the board.

California plans to treat 35,000 acres of forest a year by 2020, and 60,000 by 2030- financed from the proceeds of the state's emissions- permit auctions.

California's plan, which is expected to be finalized by the governor next year, should serve as a model.

Earlier this year the country's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced plans to pay Boeing to investigate formation flighty though the programme has yet to begin.

Enraged by Entergy's behavior, the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 last year against allowing an extension.

Gap year experiences can lessen the blow when it comes to adjusting to college and being thrown into a brand new environment, making it easier to focus on academics and activities rather than acclimation blunders.

given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year—a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.

If you're not convinced of the inherent value in taking a year off to explore interests, then consider its financial impact on future academic choices.

In the US, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has pushed most public companies to defer performance bonuses for senior executives by about a year, slightly helping reduce "short-termism."

Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000from its year ago level.

It is true that CEO pay has gone up-top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500% The typical CEO of a to

Last year a federal task-force urged reform for patents related to genetic tests.

Last year, Europe Commission vice President Viviane Reding issued a call to voluntary action.

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons—both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

Later this year, we will publish a white paper setting out exactly how we will achieve this.

microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's safari both offer DNT; Google's Chrome is due to do so this year.

More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first became available without prescriptions last year, according to Doug Fogg, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general rel

One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been unemployed for at least a year report having depression, double the rate for working Americans.

One survey from Accenture found that 88 percent of graduating seniors this year chose their major with a job in mind.

Rather than pulling students back, a gap year pushes them ahead by preparing them for independence, new responsibilities and environmental changes—all things that first-year students often struggle with the most.

Runners range from four year old to grandparents; their times range from Andrew Baddeley's world record 13 minutes 48 seconds up to an hour.

Ruth simmons joined Goldman Sachs's board as an outside director in January 2000: a year later she became president of Brown University.

Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008.

Starting next year, any guaranteed bonus of top executives could be delayed 10 years if their banks are under investigation for wrongdoing.

Studies from the United States and Australia show that students who take a gap year are generally better prepared for and perform better in college than those who do not.

Taking a gap year to figure things out initially can help prevent stress and save money later on.

That common- sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS $2 billion per year.

The bills are similar to a measure recently adopted in California, which last year became the first state to require gender quotas for private companies.

The Breakthrough Prize in life Sciences, launched this year, takes an unrepresentative view of what the life sciences include.

The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly f

The H-2A visa has no numerical cap, unlike the H-2B visa for non-agricultural work, which is limited to 66, 000 a year.

The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes its reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.