They had been together for four years; but now the soldier was about to be discharged . 他们在一起已有四年之久；可是现在这个士兵就要退伍了。
Colonel pastukhov, is a bald, barnacled veteran of 35 years in state security . 帕斯图霍夫上校秃顶，戴眼镜，在国家安全机关已干了三十五年之久。
Now that curtain has risen and men can look back to a past of scores and hundreds of millions of years . 帘幕已揭开，人们可以回溯几十亿年之久的过去了。
The average shore employment requires as much as forty years to equip a man with this sort of an education . 干陆地上的工作，需要四十年之久，才能使人获得这种教育。
Takashashi, ten years matsushita's junior, remains one of the firm's principal troubleshooters . 曾作为松下副手达10年之久的高桥一直是公司中首屈一指的解决难题的能手。
The congress was determined to impose the withdrawal that had been thwarted by the executive for half a decade . 国会决意要强制执行撤军案。该案因政府反对而被搁置已达六年之久。
It is difficult to determine what caused copernicus to overthrow the fourteen-hundred-year-old ptolemaic theory . 很难断定什么原因使Copernicus抛弃了有1400年之久的Ptolemaic理论。
By 1960 foreign aid policy had been static for nearly a decade, in its conceptions as well as its programs . 到1960年，对外援助政策不论是在概念上还是行动计划上，都一直停滞了近十年之久。
I doubt whether anyone had begun to think about the problem of even transcribing, let alone organizing, seven years of conversation . 我怀疑是否真有人着手考虑过将七年之久的对话誊写成文，更不必说组织了。
The agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in vietnam had become possible when after ten years of bitter war and four years of negotiating stalemate . 经过十年的激烈战争和拖了四年之久的谈判，终于签订了在越南结束战争、恢复和平的协定。
