Around 300,000, mostly indigenous women were sterilized before the turn of the century under a birth control program.

在世纪之交前，大约30万名妇女因生育管控计划被绝育，其中大部分是土著妇女。

Hilde's great-grandfather had built the house some years before the turn of the century.

希尔德的曾祖父在世纪之交前几年建造了这座房子。

More than half of American homeowners aged 65 or over moved in before the turn of the millennium.

超过一半的 65 岁或以上的美国房主在千禧年之前搬进来了。

One idea, which remained in textbooks well into my own school days, was the baked apple theory propounded by the Austrian Eduard Suess just before the turn of the century.

有一种见解直到我上小学时还在教科书里出现过，那就是在世纪之交由奥地利人爱德华·休伊斯提出的“云莓干”理论。

The strongest statements of this type invariably come from Indians who arrived in Abu Dhabi or Dubai before the turn of the millennium, and have witnessed the cities' extraordinary rise.

此类最强烈的言论无一例外地来自千禧年之前抵达阿布扎比或迪拜并见证了这些城市非凡崛起的印度人。