In this task, you are given a sentence in the Japanese language and your task is to convert it into the English language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).

[Q]: コッター川のダムは4年間も建設中である。
[A]: The dam on the Cotter River has been under construction for four years.


[Q]: いとこの父親は、遺体はめちゃめちゃになっていて見分けがつかなかったと言い、「われわれが学校に来たとき、イスラエルがわれわれに去るように警告した」と言った。
[A]: The cousin's father said the bodies were so mangled he couldn't tell the bodies apart, "We came to the school when the Israelis warned us to leave," he said.


[Q]: しかし、ずっとより短い海岸線を持つスロベニアは、これにより、船が直接公海に行くことが否定されるのを恐れた。
[A]:
However, Slovenia, which has a much shorter coastline, feared that this would deny its ships direct passage to international waters.