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“quarante ou cinquante ans” in English

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Ce théâtre existe depuis plus de quarante ou cinquante ans, mais chaque année c'est la même histoire.
This theatre has been up and running for more than forty, fifty, years, but every year, we hear the same old story.
Je crois qu'aujourd'hui - et non il y a vingt, quarante ou cinquante ans - il impossible d'expliquer à un citoyen européen la raison d'être du double siège.
I feel that it is impossible to explain to any European citizen now - not 20 or 40 or 50 years ago - why we still have two seats.
Le fait que plusieurs millions d'Européens attendent que nous leur ouvrions les portes de l'Union devrait nous aider à apprécier à leur juste valeur les choses qui nous semblent, aujourd'hui, naturelles mais qui, il y a quarante ou cinquante ans, relevaient de l'utopie.
The fact that so many millions of Europeans are waiting for us to open the doors of the Union to them should serve to make us appreciate anew things which today we take for granted, but which forty or fifty years ago seemed like unachievable dreams.

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