original: the following year , a newspaper solicited eleven design proposals -lrb- all but one of which was a nordic cross -rrb- and polled the people to determine the most popular .
simplifications: a newspaper solicited eleven design proposals and polled the people to determine the most popular . the following year a newspaper solicited several design proposals , and polled the people to determine the most popular designs , one out of which was a nordic cross . the year after , a newspaper advertised eleven design ideas -lrb- only one was not a nordic cross -rrb- and asked people which one they liked the best . last year , a newspaper obtained eleven possible designs -lrb- all but one of which was a nordic cross -rrb- and asked people which they liked the best . the next year , a newspaper gathered eleven design proposals -lrb- all but one of which was a nordic cross -rrb- and asked people what they liked the most . the following year , a newspaper solicited eleven design proposals -lrb- all but one of which was a nordic cross -rrb- and polled the people to determine the most popular . the newspaper ran a poll to pick the most popular from eleven design proposals . the following year , a newspaper received eleven design proposal -lrb- all but one of which was a nordic cross -rrb- and polled the people to determine the most popular .