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period

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Desať rokov je dlhá doba na čakanie.
Ten years is a long time to wait.
V poslednej dobe veľa pijem.
I've been drinking a lot lately.
Väčšina ľudí v dnešnej dobe nerozume, čo je to priateľstvo.
Most people nowadays don't understand friendship.
V tej dobe ešte neboli mobilné telefóny.
In that era there were not yet mobile phones.
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Source
Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Includes Tatoeba example sentences when present.
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