Sentence Composition
| 1 | 本 | běn |
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| 2 | 世纪 | shìjì |
century classifier: 個 |
| 3 | 初 | chū |
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| 4 | 以来 | yǐlái | since (a previous event) |
| 5 | 产生 | chǎnshēng |
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| =6 | 了 | le |
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| =6 | 了 | liǎo |
| =6 | 了 | liǎo |
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| =6 | 了 | liào | unofficial variant of 瞭 liào |
| 7 | 很多 | hěnduō | many; much; a lot |
| 8 | 进步 | jìnbù |
classifier: 個 |