Writing the book took ten months of hard slog.

这本书是苦熬十个月写出来的。

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It took ten guardsmen to overpower him.

动用了10个守卫才将他制服。

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The interview only took ten minutes, but it felt like hours.

面试只用了十分钟，但觉得像几个小时似的。

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The first letters sent by Pony Express from California took ten days to reach Missouri.

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What I did was I took the ten best-performing Internet funds and looked at the returns from 1997 to 2002.

我选了十个表现最好的投资网络的基金,分析它们1997至2002年的收益情况

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Roger Ibbotson took a look at a larger group of funds -3,500--funds over a ten-year period and found survivorship bias at 2.9% per year and backfill bias at 4.6% per year.

罗杰·伊博森研究了更大的样本组,3500支基金10年间的表现,算出其生存偏差是每年2.9%,回填偏差是每年4.6%

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He took ten years to come to terms with a very obdurate and highly original painter.

ECONOMIST: Mercenary and magical

"It took ten years to figure out these didn't work very well, " he says.

FORBES: Rethinking Biology

It took ten years for the exchange to contribute much to development, he says.

ECONOMIST: The world��s smallest stock exchange