Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.
在过去的二十五年里，英语报纸发生了很多变化，其中最深远的变化可能是其艺术报道的范围和严肃性不可逆转地减少了。
Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.
在过去十年中，数千项专利被授予了一些被称为商业方法的发明。
Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors – habits – among consumers.
在过去十年中，许多公司已经精通了在消费者中培养自动行为——习惯——的艺术。
As a condition of receiving state approval for the sale, the company agreed to seek permission from state regulators to operate past 2012.
作为获得州政府批准这项交易的条件，该公司同意向州监管机构申请许可，以继续在2012年后运营。
In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads?
在过去几周里，一场争论说明了此类精细信息对广告商的价值：广告商是否应该假定人们愿意被追踪并接收行为广告？
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。