London Metal Exchange bonded warehouses saw copper inventories leap 17 percent in the first quarter.
第一季度，伦敦金属交易所保税仓库的铜存量跃增了17%。
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Engineering firms, which saw orders collapse by almost a quarter during the recession, cut employment by about 8%.
虽然订单在衰退期间减少了四分之一，工程类公司只大约裁员8%。
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The second quarter of this year saw more than 4,000 such murders: twice as many as at the beginning of last year, and some eight times more than at the beginning of 2007 (see chart 1).