Our economic problems were decades in the making, and they won’t be solvedovernight.
请问这句话的前半句：“Our economic problems were decades in the making” 如何理解？请大神帮忙分析一下句子结构呀~
今天我也看到的一个句子
The ouster of Chongqing boss Bo Xilai was 30 years in the making---a long, sordid tale of elite families and factions vying for the soul of the Chinese Communist Party.
