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At this rate, the risk is high that our country's competitive position will drop even further.

divorce rate

As the attendees of the DTA General Meeting will be offered the block rate, when you reserve Marriott Hotel for me, please notify them that I will attend it.

A recent analysis by Boeing forecasts that unless safety is improved, jet airliners could be falling out of the sky at the rate of once a week by the year 2010.

In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.

While the birth rate is intended to be decreased in developing countries, that of developed nations is selfishly planned to be increased, resulting in the difficulty of getting mutual consent.

Japan's ODA largely consists of concessionary yen credit repayable in 30 years, carrying an interest rate of 2% or so.

One month since entering high school ... not a single friend yet. That's really terrible, at this rate it will be middle-school all over again!!

Although an increase of unmarried mothers is needed in order to escape the declining birth rate for some reason public opinion in Japan is avoiding this argument.

A high savings rate is cited as one factor for Japan's strong economic growth because it means the availability of abundant investment capital.

Women in their hearts think that men are intended to earn money so that they may spend it, if possible during their husband's lifetime, but at any rate after his death.

The Chinese government has spent a lot of money on research into successful panda breeding in order to increase their birth rate.

If it is true that the Greeks forbade women to go to the play, they acted in a right way; for they would at any rate be able to hear something.

Following the demographic data, the government was obliged to adopt a policy that would stimulate birth rate.

You go first.

First cousins are too close for marriage.

Wow, we're finally in Paris. Where should we visit first?

Four hundred million people speak English as their first language.

The argument presented in Doyle's study was first published as a white paper on drug-related crimes.

When people meet, first impressions determine more than 50 percent of whatever happens next.

It wasn't my lucky day. First, I got a parking ticket and then things went from bad to worse when I got pulled over for making a U-turn.

First off, I'd like you to come with me to a department store sale.

Each one of the world's great successes was a failure first.

The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by Russia in 1957.

Chimpanzees normally have their first child at age 13, humans at age 19.

A friend I went with on our first trip abroad had his wallet pickpocketed. I don't think it left a very good impression.

Socrates said that recognising your own ignorance is the first step towards wisdom.

Many doctors look at your tongue first when they begin an examination.

Four of my favorite Christmas carols are "Silent Night," "Joy to the World," "The First Noel" and "Away in the Manger."

Watch your language.

The English language is undoubtedly the easiest and at the same time the most efficient means of international communication.

We cannot know too much about the language we speak every day of our lives.

Language acquisition requires creativity.

If you concentrate all your energies on the study of English, you will master the language.

You may write in any language you want. On Tatoeba, all languages are equal.

In all probability, no language is completely free of borrowed words.

Dr. Zamenhof believed that a language belongs to the people who speak it which is why he never copyrighted Esperanto.

A child who is a native speaker usually knows many things about his or her language that a non-native speaker who has been studying for years still does not know and perhaps will never know.

The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable.

In many countries, whenever a group of people from various language backgrounds get together, English is usually the language that is spoken.

Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.

The difficulties of the Japanese language prevent all but a handful of foreigners from approaching the literature in the original.

And even outside these nations, English is perhaps more widely used as a medium of international communication than any other language.

He hardly ever works.

As far as I know, no one has ever done it.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

I think it's a shame that some foreign language teachers were able to graduate from college without ever having studied with a native speaker.

All you ever do is nitpick. I wish you could say something more constructive.

No one ever knew the true story except the three of us.

Unless you started learning English as a child, you're unlikely to ever sound like a native speaker.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Didn't it ever occur to them that they would be punished?

If you ever do anything to hurt Tom, I'll kill you.

The best cookies I've ever eaten are the ones that your mother baked for me.

Though grammatically there is nothing wrong with this sentence, I doubt if anyone would actually ever use it.

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Regardless of how much he drank, he seems as sober as ever.

After winning the Nobel prize, she remained as modest as ever.

it was at first considered to be obscene

She didn't recognise him at first.

Only three people passed the test at first.

I didn't like Mary at first, but then we became friends.

Call the police!

We're getting out of here. The cops are coming.

When I have migraines, aspirin doesn't alleviate the pain for me.

I'm at the hospital. I got struck by lightning.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.

Hearing the terrible noise, I asked him what was going on.

It seems likely that people in the city will move to the country.

Is the university's library open now?

Just go in and tell the boss you want a raise. "That's easier said than done."

The best policy for us to observe is to mind our own business.

Is the Loch Ness monster real or is it just an elaborate hoax?

All the coaches of the train were packed to capacity ten minutes before it started.

Excuse me, let me point out three mistakes in the above article.

I walked as far as the post office, where I took the bus for Tokyo Station.

We all took for granted that the professor could speak English.

No one will know.

One thing I don't like about the iPad is that you can't easily install apps that aren't available through Apple's App Store.

One thing you should know about me is that I hate exercising.

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You can't easily put photos on an iPad from more than one computer. However, you can email photos to yourself from various computers and download these photos to your iPad.

Last night my daughter didn't come home until half past one.

One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.

I always thought that a stroke was one of nature's ways to tell you that it's time to die.

All her carefully made plans began to unravel one by one.

Like all dogs, he'll chase a rabbit if he sees one.

The one who demands much, gets much. The one who demands too much, gets nothing.

Hearing him speak English, one would take him for an Englishman.

One kilogram of tomato sauce is equivalent to two kilograms of tomatoes.

Tom put together one million dollars in unmarked, used bills as the kidnappers had told him to do.

The best salad you'll ever eat is the one they serve with their lunch special.