for years

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I haven't used my French for years and have forgotten almost all of it.
我的法语丢了好几年了，都忘得差不多了。
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For years, farmers did not know what they were or what to do with them.
多年来，农民们不知道它们是什么，也不知道该拿它们怎么办。
He bootlegged for years before anyone noticed.
在人们注意之前他已贩酒多年了。
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Butler lost by just two points to Duke, which for years has had one of the country's most successful basketball programs.
But if it watches you over some amount of time just like it's been for years with advertisements, can this kind of algorithm, this kind of process presumably improve?
但是如果它像关注广告一样,花费一些时间关注你，这些算法和进程，想必会提升吧？
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I don't know, to just hold on to and to have and it's, they've had it for years, you know, like.
坚持经过这么多年保留下来的东西，
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And Buick dealers, who have subsisted on scraps for years, are well respected and savvy.
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