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And the rises were short-lived: prices typically returned to normal with the next harvest.

And based on past experiences, it takes four to five years after economic recovery for unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels.

When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: Flawless.

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

Perhaps a return to real cooking needn't be far off.

A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

Once, just after I returned from my year in Vienna, I was asked to translate for a German judge at an Olympiclevel horse event.

His fall from grace in the 1980s, followed by his return to Apple in 1996 after a period in the wilderness, is an inspiration to any businessperson whose career has taken a turn for the worse.

The return of home-style dishes.

Her main reason for returning to academia mid-career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions.

Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for a pharmaceutical (制药的) company before returning to university as a post-doctoral researcher

I'll tell my secretary to put the paper in my mail box, and I'll get it when I return.

Further evidence of McLaughlin's irresponsibility occurred on May 6 when he was returning from his shift.

When Donna returned to the States, she couldn't settle down.

I was so grateful, " Aarons says, " but I persuaded Pat to let me return the favour in my own way with season tickets to our little theater group.

What does Aaron do to return Pat's favor

Well, I guess I'd sell my watch or computer or do some odd jobs till I could afford a return plane ticket.

It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts (宇航员) someday may survive so long in space that they would return to an Earth of the distant future

She quit her job when she became pregnant, but is now interested in returning to work.

"When they see that carrier back out on the street," Swigart said, "that's the first sign to them that life is starting to return to normal.

Aydin Municipality bought the plane from a private company for just under US100,000, but they hope to see a return on that investment through the tourism industry.

Some services, however, remind us that life will eventually return, in some form, to normal.

The note inside the bottle said, "Return to 419 Ocean Street and receive a reward of $150 from Richard and Tina pierce, owners of the Beachcomber Motel."

They hope to return to the site with geologists for an additional search as there could before fossils near the site.

When winter comes, they return to their hiding places to eat the food.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

By raising relative demand for clean energy sources, a carbon price would also help align the market return to clean-energy innovation with its social return, spurring the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new ones.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

As U.S.banks recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, president Obama held meetings with top bank executives, telling them it’s time to return the favor.

What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

A full 18 percent have even returned devices until they feel they can get safer guarantees against having their sensitive information hacked.

When they returned home, their droppings end up all around their nesting sites, including in nearby ponds.

Investors will invest in a bond considered risky only if the potential return is high enough.

He is far less likely to take a year of parental leave and then return on a reduced work schedule for the next eight years

Even if the question is ostensibly (表面上) about something outside the self (describe a fictional character or solve a problem of geopolitics), the essay invariably returns to the favorite topic: what is its impact on YOU?

He was happy to see the return of the do-it-yourself spirit in America.

The more one saves, the more returns one will reap.

In return for the scale of investment, they should share their expertise in order to build greater confidence in the sector.

Inevitably however, the day came when she was so weakened that she had to return to Pittsburgh, her home town.

Anyway, you are one of the few people who actually return books to me.

She never expected anyone to return the books to her

Most borrowers never returned the books to her.

Then it is returned to the box.

The man will return home before going to the concert.

And when we get off the plane, instead of being depleted, we feel recovered and ready to return to the performance zone.

In return for an average of £44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture form

The team plans to return to around a dozen of the buildings to assess progress and consider further action.

Thus the more imbalanced we become due to overworking, the more value there is in activities that allow us to return to a state of balance.