TASK DEFINITION: The task is to read a passage and convert numbers in their text forms into digit forms. The text numbers can be used to represent Quantity, Dates and Time, Addresses or Positions.
PROBLEM: Did England hesitate to call in ten billion dollars of her war bonds bearing five percent interest,

SOLUTION: Did England hesitate to call in ten billion dollars of her war bonds bearing 5 percent interest,

PROBLEM: As regards the first, I find that in seventeen eighty six

SOLUTION: As regards the first, I find that in 1786

PROBLEM: who declared that the rough diamond market was in such a depressed condition that they could only afford to give one thousand seven fifty pounds for stones worth

SOLUTION:
who declared that the rough diamond market was in such a depressed condition that they could only afford to give £1750 for stones worth