not so long ago

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The idea that giant-brained people were not so long ago walking the dusty plains of South Africa was sufficiently shocking to draw in the luminaries back in England.
腦容量巨大的人種不久之前還生活在南非塵土飛揚(yáng)的平原上，這個令人震驚的結(jié)論足以從英國吸引一批杰出人士前來調(diào)查。
NOT SO long ago, prediction markets were being tipped as a fantastic new way to forecast everything from the completion date of a vital project to a firm’s annual sales.
不久之前，市場預(yù)測被描述為一種預(yù)報一切事物的極好方式，從重要項目的最終數(shù)據(jù)完成日期到公司每年的銷售量。
Africa’s most recent breakaway, Eritrea, was finally in 1993, after a long war, allowed to leave Ethiopia, to which it had been attached not so long ago.
經(jīng)歷長期戰(zhàn)爭之后，厄立特里亞于1993年被允許脫離依附時間不長的埃塞俄比亞，從而成為非洲最近期的一次獨立事件。

Fabricio Cimino wrote: Not long ago I wanted to watch TV, but it wouldn't turn on, so I did everything I could to start it.
This is another example, not so long ago--this is December 2003.
這是03年12月的圖,也不算太久之前
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I had an interview not so long ago to get into Leamington College
我不久前參加了利明頓大學(xué)的入學(xué)面試，
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Not so long ago this mill town on the Naugatuck River was an industrial powerhouse.
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