not so long ago

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The idea that giant-brained people were not so long ago walking the dusty plains of South Africa was sufficiently shocking to draw in the luminaries back in England.
脑容量巨大的人种不久之前还生活在南非尘土飞扬的平原上，这个令人震惊的结论足以从英国吸引一批杰出人士前来调查。
NOT SO long ago, prediction markets were being tipped as a fantastic new way to forecast everything from the completion date of a vital project to a firm’s annual sales.
不久之前，市场预测被描述为一种预报一切事物的极好方式，从重要项目的最终数据完成日期到公司每年的销售量。
Africa’s most recent breakaway, Eritrea, was finally in 1993, after a long war, allowed to leave Ethiopia, to which it had been attached not so long ago.
经历长期战争之后，厄立特里亚于1993年被允许脱离依附时间不长的埃塞俄比亚，从而成为非洲最近期的一次独立事件。

Fabricio Cimino wrote: Not long ago I wanted to watch TV, but it wouldn't turn on, so I did everything I could to start it.
This is another example, not so long ago--this is December 2003.
这是03年12月的图,也不算太久之前
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I had an interview not so long ago to get into Leamington College
我不久前参加了利明顿大学的入学面试，
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Not so long ago this mill town on the Naugatuck River was an industrial powerhouse.
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