The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.
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Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.
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It is estimated that extreme weather conditions have endangered the lives of millions of African children.
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For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.
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2 million barrels per day to the crude oil market, contributing to a global over-supply.
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And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.
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About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.
出自-2017年6月听力原文
About 136 million people will shop during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.
出自-2017年6月听力原文
To get access to millions of new customers, insurers would have a strong incentive to sell on the exchange.
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Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related ( ' , 与腹泻相关 的) diseases, according to WHO statistics.
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Magna, an advertising agency, reckons it will be worth about $138 million this year.
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It is polluting millions of acres of cropland.
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In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide.
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Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下 水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.
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BSkyB, Britain's biggest satellite-television service, already provides 9 million customers with interactive ads.
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However, Brazil's stretch of misfortune has created opportunities for China, with a Chinese company winning the $100 million contract in 2015 to rebuild the Brazilian station.
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The notion of space tourism took hold in 2001 with a $20 million flight aboard a Russian spacecraft by Dennis Tito, a millionaire engineer with an adventurous streak.
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Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.
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In the US, the House of Representatives Science Committee has approved a bill allocating $10 million a year to studying energy-related behaviour.
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For all their troubles, the United States’ 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.
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The music service This Is My Jam helps people navigate the tens of millions of tracks now available instantly via Spotify and iTunes.
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million jobs, or one-third of the workforce in manufacturing, have been lost.
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million jobs lost in the last three months, there is urgent desire to boost the economy as quickly as possible
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Stored underground in large salt caves in Louisiana, this stockpile is called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and currently contains over 600 million barrels of oil, roughly equivalent to one month's supply.
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So far, Google has scanned more than 10 million titles from libraries in America and Europe - including half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford.
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Of the roughly 40 million books in US libraries, for example, an estimated 32 million are in copyright.
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As Santiago de la Mora, head of Google Books for Europe, puts it: \By making it possible to search the millions of books that exist today, we hope to expand the frontiers of human knowledge.
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Such pro\u001Fgrams can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support.
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Today, universities have produced millions of physicists.
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Each side provides the winter home for millions of monarchs.
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We can invent computers capable of processing ten million calculations per second.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
Nearly nine million Americans alone suffer from the illness.
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We don't even have $1 million
出自-2012年6月听力原文
They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.
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million years, a period when global temperatures probably were not significantly higher than they are today.
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In geological time, a million years is recent history
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It's a complex system wherein data is copied to multiple intermediate devices, usually to speed up access to files when millions of people are trying to access the service at the same time.
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The kidnappers had been demanding 1 million pounds for the release of Mr. Louis. Louis.
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Esperanto is used internationally across language boundaries by at least 1 million people, particularly in specialized fields
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1 million breeding pairs - will be forced to relocate their breeding grounds, or face extinction by 2100.
2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
1 million young people answered various questions related to their well-being.
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4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump of nearly a quarter.
2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
5 million people died prematurely from outdoor air pollution in 2015.
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5 million worth of young Bison that will be raised according to its grass-fed protocols, with a guaranteed purchase price.
2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
Algorithms that were right 95% of the time when they were dealing with a 13,000-image database, for example, were accurate about 70% of the time when confronted with 1 million images.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
And about 200 to 215 million women don't have access to birth control they want, so that they can't control their own fertility.
2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
And as it turns out, even today—with job growth near zero—over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
By 1500 some 20 million volumes had already been printed.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
By 2030, Germany plans on having over 6 million charging stations installed.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
Each day that Elop spent in charge of Nokia, the company's market value declined by $23 million, making him, by the numbers, one of the worst CEOs in history.
2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still moving ahead, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
Every month it remains unopened costs between nine and 10 million euros.
2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
Farmers are reporting steep losses and a new $20 million tomato-paste factory has halted production due to the shortages.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El nio weather phenomenon in decades.
2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
It has become the world's most widely read magazine, selling 28 million copies each month in 17 languages and 41 different editions.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
It is estimated that in 2014 the world produced some 42 million metric tons of e-waste discarded electrical and electronic equipment and its parts with North America and Europe accounting for 8 and 12 million metric tons respectively.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
It's hardly surprising that over half a million workers suffer from work related mental health conditions.
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Located on the Mediterranean just two hours south of Barcelona, the Ebro Delta produces 120 million kilograms of rice a year, making it one of the continent's most important rice-growing areas.
2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related diseases, according to WHO statistics.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
Other efforts to increase the use of electric vehicles include plans to build over 1 million hybrid and electric car battery charging stations across the country.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
So the voice actors are pushing for the idea of secondary compensation一a performance bonus every time a game sells 2 million copies or downloads, or reaches 2 million subscribers, with a cap at 8 million.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository 库, and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has o
2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
The advent of new technologies has added about 4.2 million barrels per day to the crude oil market, contributing to a global over-supply.
2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to 1 million different images of nearly 700, 000 different people—and not just a large database featuring a relatively small number of different faces, more consistent with what's been used
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
The message to young people who might not otherwise be able to afford to break into the business is, \You can purchase this $3 million piece of land here, because I'm guaranteeing you today you'll have 1, 000 Bison on it.\
2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
The notion of space tourism took hold in 2001 with a $20 million flight aboard a Russian spacecraft by Dennis tito, a millionaire engineer with an adventurous streak.
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
There are currently around 155, 000 registered hybrid and electric vehicles on German roads, dwarfed by the million gasoline and diesel cars driving there now.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
There're currently 21.5 million students in America, and many will be funding their college on borrowed money.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C