Then, each user has exactly four ratings in the validation data, which come earlier in time than the ratings by the same user in the test data.

然后，每个用户有4个验证数据，在时间上比同一个用户在测试集中打分数据出来的早。

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CHINA's car market has overtaken America's in sales volume for the first time, several years earlier than analysts had predicted before the financial crisis.

中国的汽车市场第一次超过了美国的销售金额，比金融危机前分析家预测的早了好几年。

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In Listing 1, the creation time of procedure sp2 was earlier than the creation time of procedure sp1.

在清单1中，sp2过程的创建时间比sp1过程创建时间早。

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The restructuring, done under the auspices of the Paris Club, an informal group of western creditor countries, came earlier than expected and just in time for the first round of Iraqi elections expected in January.

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It also reminds us that novelists of any earlier time had larger ambitions than they do in our day, when they are often content to write about people who, like themselves, live more in their minds than in the world.

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