In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.
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Question: there are claims that thousands of people were impaled at a single time.

Answer: there are claims that thousands of people were stabbed at once.


Question: 42 – 59 external links 2001 census , accessed nov . 29 , 2006 geo.

Answer: 42 – 59 external links 2001 census , used nov . 29 , 2006 geo.


Question: initially about 30,000 people moved to the goldfields , but by 1863 this had declined to about 3,500 because of the difficult mining conditions.

Answer:
at first , about 30,000 people moved to the goldfields , but by 1863 this had declined to about 3,500 because of the hard mining conditions.