NOT so long ago television was scary.

不久前电视还让人担惊受怕。

And not so long ago.

就在不久的从前。

Not so long ago I was an expectant father.

不久以前我还是一名准爸爸。

McAllen's situation was worse not so long ago.

麦卡伦的形势恶化并没有多久。

Not so long ago finding a TV programme was easy.

不久前，要想查找一个电视节目仍非难事。

Those were such happy times and not so long ago.

就在不久以前，那是多么美好的时光啊。

Not so long ago, the world lamented its broken continent.

不久之前，世界还在为破败不堪的非洲悲叹。

Not so long ago, news was a highly profitable business.

不久以前，新闻行业曾经是块沃土。

Not so long ago, this ungainly partnership was faring poorly.

不久以前，这一笨拙的伙伴关系颇不走运。

The Nordic crises were not so long ago, yet they seem a world away.

北欧的危机过去的时间不长，但是看起来似乎是另一个世界的事情。

Not so long ago many wise people thought Mr Berlusconi was doomed, too.

而不久之前，众多有识之士还认为，贝卢斯科尼先生在劫难逃。

Once upon a time, but not so long ago, Daisy and Lily were in the hospital.

从前，也不算太久之前，小菊和百合在医院里。

Not so long ago Japanese wives put up with any amount of infidelity and abuse.

在不久前，日本的妻子们还忍受着各种背叛和虐待。

Remember not so long ago we looked at flux of a two-dimensional field of a curve.

记得之前我们曾经学过，二维空间中曲线的通量。

Those were such happy times and not so long ago. How I wondered where they'd gone!

那些真是快乐的时光，仿佛就发生在不远的身旁，我现在多想知道美好的时光都已去向何方。

Not so long ago, for most people, listening to the radio was a single task activity.

不久以前，对大多数人而言，听收音机是一项单一的活动。

For instance, not so long ago, many were predicting the death of the UNIX operating environment.

例如，不久前，很多人预言unix操作环境将死亡。

What immediately comes to mind is that a video I saw with an eight-year-old friend not so long ago.

我记起不久前跟一个八岁孩子，一起看的一部片子。

There was a time not so long ago when such news would have sent Chelsea fans into paroxysms of panic.

而就在此之前不久，这样的消息恐怕会让所有的切尔西球迷陷入突如其来的惊慌之中。

NOT so long ago, most fund managers riding the private-equity wave were squeamish about appearing in public.

不久之前，大多数驾驭私人股权浪潮的经理人都还对出现在公开场合感到拘谨。

Not so long ago it might have been hard to find many executives who thought the euro zone would fracture.

不久之前，可能很少有高级经理人会认为欧元区会出问题。

One has to wonder what each person is doing today, but I know what they are feeling – that was me not so long ago.

虽然很难了解别人每天都在干什么，但我知道他们都在想什么——因为我不久前也有同样感受。

Not so long ago, I would have thought new technology would have affected the electronics department or our dotcom business.

不久前我还会认为，新技术只会影响到电子部门或者我们的网站业务。

Nowadays, people tend to write letter by computers, there was a time, not so long ago, when letter writing was a real craft.

现在，人们更愿意用电脑写信了，不久的以前，那时候手写书信也算是一种手艺……

That's pretty forward thinking for a publication that, not so long ago, was still blocking access to their content on the Web.

对于出版物来讲，这种想法的确超前。记得不久前，它还在阻止访问网络内容。

Turns out Hayward, now 6-8, was a 5-11 junior tennis player not so long ago, competing in mixed doubles with his twin sister, Heather.

原来如今6英尺8英寸高的海沃德不久前还是一个5英尺11英寸的青少年网球选手，在混双比赛中和他的双胞胎姐姐希瑟搭档。

More recently, falling prices have been taken as a signal to flee, even though shares are much cheaper than they were not so long ago.

6近来，股价下滑，人们就认为，这是撤资信号，尽管现在的股价相比不久前便宜太多了。