8.According to the fossil records and the distribution pattern of extant Magnoliaceae, the results can be drawn as follows: 1) This family originated no later than Early Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian).
9.I said the negotiations would take two years; less than that would not do. But, I said, the question must be solved innot more than two years. Then China would formally declare its decision to recover Hong Kong in 1997.