Since it was first advocated, in 1953, the EC has been in existence for more than thirty years. The Pacific Basin Economic Community (APEC's predecessor) has only been around for some twenty years, from 1969 to the present.
歐市從一九五三年倡議到現在，已有卅多年了，亞太經合會從它的前身到現在，不過廿年。