Banks were already scaling back their proprietary-trading activity sharply as a result of the crisis: some say its contribution to revenue has fallen by more than half in the past three years.

由于金融危机，银行业已经大幅减少了自营交易的规模：某几家银行声称，过去的三年中，自营业务对总收入的贡献已下降了超过一半。

(Marchionne is said to have killed three styling proposals in the past year and a half).

(据说在过去的一年半里，马基·奥尼已经毙掉了三个造型设计方案)。

One factor is the self-confidence that comes from having, as they see it, beaten off three world powers (America, China and France) in the past half-century.

自信心是一个方面，因为在越南人看来，他们在过去五十年中摆脱了世界三大强国（美国、中国和法国）的束缚。

Over the past three years, she's had to take about a year and a half off of school, often in two - to three-month chunks.

在过去的三年里，她不得不休学了一年半的时间，往往一次休两三个月。

He said that in the past three years, he had engaged in conversations with about half a dozen women online.

他说，过去三年里，他曾与大约六名女人在网上聊天。

Companies are slashing payrolls: 3.6 million people have lost their jobs since the recession started, with half of those getting laid off in just the past three months.

公司缩减了工资名单：自从经济衰退开始，已经有360万人失业，其中一半人是在刚刚过去的三个月里丢掉了工作。

The World food Program says that in the past three weeks, it has delivered food rations to half a million people, but aid has yet to reach many more.

世界粮食计划署表示，过去三个星期，向50万人发放了食物供给，但同时指出，还有更多的人等待援助。

A drop in the marriage rate has resulted in a doubling of single-parent households over the past three and a half decades.

过去35年来，结婚率的下降使单亲家庭的数量增长了一倍。

Over the past three and a half decades, real per-capita income in the United States has risen from just over seventeen thousand dollars to almost twenty-seven thousand dollars.

过去35年来，美国人均真实收入从1.7万美元出头直升至将近2.7万美元。

The severe drought, the 1st seen in the past half century, has kept the water level in the Yangtze the lowest since 2003, when the Three Gorges Dam went into operation.

此次旱情属50年一遇，目前，长江水位处于三峡大坝2003年运营以来的最低值。

I've spent the past three and a half years staring at grease boards full of equations.

过去三年半时间我都在瞪着写满方程序的板子上。

Over the past three weeks, at least half a dozen men and women have been attacked, losing their beards or, in the case of the women, clumps of their hair.

过去三周中，至少十几名男子和妇女遭受袭击，男的被剃去胡须，女人被割掉几缕头发。

I've spent the past three and a half years staring at grease boards full of equations. Before that, I spent four years working on my thesis.

过去三年半时间我都在瞪着，写满方程序的板子上。在那之前我花了四年时间写论文。

IT was about half past one--three bells in the sea phrase--that the two boats went ashore from the HISPANIOLA.

那两只划于从伊斯班袅拉号出发上岸时大约是一点半钟——用海上的话说是钟敲三下①。

He said in some polling stations balloting had continued up to three-and-a-half-hours past the official 10 p. m. deadline.

他说在一些投票站的投票活动在晚上10点的最后期限前持续进行了三个半小时。

Companies are slashing payrolls: 3.6 million people have lost their jobs since the recession started, with half of those getting laid off in just the past three months.

公司缩减了工资名单：自从金融危机开始，已经有360万人失业，其中一半人是在刚刚过去的三个月里丢掉了工作。

Kyumoto noted that the past three meetings have run over the intended two-hour time slot by half an hour.

Kyumoto指出，过去3次会议有槽运行超过了计划两个小时的时间半小时。

She began to dress at three o 'clock for her departure at half - past five for the noted dining-room which was then crowding Delmonico's for position in society.

她3点钟就开始打扮，准备5点半动身去那家有名的饭店，当时它正在与德尔莫·尼科饭店竞争社会地位。