Task: Pos Tagging
Input (English): Sentence: State and local expenditures ( in real terms ) increased persistently from $26.5-billion in 1949 to $44.3-billion in 1959 , and it would not be surprising if they showed a comparable increase in this decade , which would carry them to the neighborhood of $75-billion by {{ 1970 }} . 
Word: 1970
Output (English): NUM