half a month earlier的意思|示意

Average hourly earnings were flat last month, and are up just 1.7% from a year earlier, half the rate at which they were growing before the recession.

平均小时薪金与上月持平，仅比去年同期水平增长了1.7%，这只是衰退前增长率的一半。

On December 4th the Bank of England again opted for boldness. It cut its benchmark rate by a percentage point, to 2%, following a stunning one-and-a-half-point reduction a month earlier.

12月4日，英格兰银行再一次选择大幅度降息，继一个月前1.5%的惊人降幅将市场基准利率降低了1个百分点，至2%。

Porsche AG's sales fell by half last month from a year earlier, to 1,427 vehicles.

保时捷(Porsche AG)当月的销量较一年前下降了一半，只有1,427辆。

Users of Sina's weibo platform rose by 208.9% to 195 million by the end of the second half of 2011, the China Internet Network Information Center said in a report earlier this month.

中国互联网信息中心(China Internet net work Information Center)在本月初的一份报告显示，2011年上半年，新浪微博的用户数增长了208.9%，达到了1.95亿。

They say I am not qualified for the job because they have problems with my appearance. But I have passed the three-month trial period and worked there for half a year. Why didn't they say so earlier?

他们说我的长相影响了工作，但是我已经通过了三个月的试用期了，还在公司工作半年了，他们为什么不提前告诉我？