| 1. | Pollution shortens considerably the life expectancy of a body of water .
污染使水体的估计寿命大为缩短。 |
| 2. | There are many ways you could refine the calculation above , but the point is made that this cooling time is much shorter than the age of the earth as determined by other means
有很多方法可以改进上述计算，但有一点是这个冷却时间大为缩短，比年龄与地球所确定的其他方式。 |
| 3. | Upon implementation of the abolition of estate duty , the time required to go through the whole process will be greatly reduced because there is no longer any need for tax assessment
在落实取消遗产税建议后，由于无须评税，市民申领遗产的时间将大为缩短，纾缓可能面对资金周转问题的情? 。 |
| 4. | Upon implementation of the abolition of estate duty , the time required to go through the whole process will be greatly reduced because there is no longer any need for tax assessment
在落实取消遗产税建议后，由于无须评税，市民申领遗产的时间将大为缩短，纾缓可能面对资金周转问题的情? 。 |
| 5. | " my stamps " are available in a larger size , enhanced image quality and improvements in technology meaning that the stamps production and printing time has been reduced . " visitors to the expo can be photographed onsite
今次“我的邮票”不但尺寸较前为大，影像质素亦胜从前；加上制作技术的改良，令制作和印刷时间都大为缩短。 |
| 6. | The new facility will significantly reduce the time required for clearing of such hong kong dollar cheques presented in guangdong down to two working days . the joint clearing facility will streamline the collection and delivery of the cheques to hkicl for processing
透过这项新机制，在广东省兑存的港元支票的兑现时间将可大为缩短至个工作天。联合结算机制将负责统筹支票的收集，然后交给香港银行同业结算有限公司处理。 |
| 7. | In the first half , retailers became increasingly conservative and postponed release of orders to manufacturers , shortening the lead - time available to the group . retailers shift in merchandising effort on mid - priced items also exerted price reduction pressure on manufacturers
零售商在上半年愈趋保守，经常延迟落实订单，因此给予生产商的出货期亦大为缩短加上零售商多集中采购中档价钱产品，对生产商亦造成一定的降价压力。 |
| 8. | In the first half , retailers became increasingly conservative and postponed release of orders to manufacturers , shortening the lead - time available to the group . retailers shift in merchandising effort on mid - priced items also exerted price reduction pressure on manufacturers
零售商在上半年愈趋保守，经常延迟落实订单，因此给予生产商的出货期亦大为缩短；加上零售商多集中采购中档价钱产品，对生产商亦造成一定的降价压力。 |
| 9. | Due to this large dependence , the lead - time required to build the housing and the scarcity of developable land , there is a considerable waiting list for public housing , which stood at 6 . 5 years in 1998 , although this is a considerable improvement upon previous years ; in 1990 , for example , the waiting time was nine years
由于市民极依赖公营房屋，加上建屋需时，可供发展的土地又十分短缺，以致市民须轮候一段颇长时间才可入住公营房屋。以一九九八年计算，轮候时间为六年半；但这年期已比过往大为缩短，举例来说，一九九零年的轮候时间是九年。 |
| 10. | Fengxing electrical factory is founded in 1996 , not only presently this factory has the advanced complete production equipment , moreover is the collection design , the development and the manufacture sale in a body specialized manufacturer . this factory the market demand which changes with each new day for the adaptation , specially invited one group of high quality technical personnel to carry on the original product mix the improvement , enable the product quality to obtain further enhanced , simultaneously has increased the new product design development dynamics , to caused the new product to develop from the design to puts
丰兴电子厂创建于一九九六年,现本厂不仅有先进全的生产装备，而且是集设计，开发和制造销售于一体的专业厂商。本厂为适应日新月异的市场需求，专门聘请了一批高素质的技术人员将原产品结构进行改进，使产品质量得到了进一步提高，同时加大了新产品设计开发力度，至使新产品从设计开发到投放市场中间过程大为缩短。 |
